1567

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1564 1565 1566 – 1567 – 1568 1569 1570

1567 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1567 MDLXVII
Ab urbe condita	2320
Armenian calendar	1016 ԹՎ ՌԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	6317
Bengali calendar	974
Berber calendar	2517
English Regnal year	9 Eliz. 1 – 10 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2111
Burmese calendar	929
Byzantine calendar	7075–7076
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4263 or 4203     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4264 or 4204
Coptic calendar	1283–1284
Discordian calendar	2733
Ethiopian calendar	1559–1560
Hebrew calendar	5327–5328
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1623–1624
- Shaka Samvat	1489–1490
- Kali Yuga	4668–4669
Holocene calendar	11567
Igbo calendar	567–568
Iranian calendar	945–946
Islamic calendar	974–975
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 10 (永禄１０年)
Julian calendar	1567 MDLXVII
Korean calendar	3900
Minguo calendar	345 before ROC 民前345年
Thai solar calendar	2109–2110

July 29: James VI.

Year 1567 (MDLXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January – A Spanish force under the command of Captain Juan Pardo establishes Fort San Juan in the Native American settlement of Joara. The fort is the first European settlement in present day North Carolina.
• January 23 – After 45 years' reign, the Jiajing Emperor dies in the Forbidden City.
• February 4 – The Longqing Emperor ascends the throne of the Ming dynasty.
• February 10 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered at the Provost's House in Kirk o' Field, Edinburgh.
• May 15 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
• June 15 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is defeated at Carberry Hill by the Scottish nobles, and imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle.

July–December

• July 24 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
• July 25 – The city of Santiago de León de Caracas in Venezuela is founded by Diego de Losada.
• July 29 – James VI is crowned at Stirling.
• August 22 – The Duke of Alba is sent to the Netherlands with a strong Spanish force to suppress unrest there. He replaces Margaret of Parma as Governor of the Netherlands. Prince William of Orange is outlawed, and Lamoral, Count of Egmont imprisoned.
• September 9 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn for treason.
• September 29 – The Second War of Religion begins in France when the Louis, Prince of Condé and Gaspard de Coligny fail in an attempt to capture King Charles IX and his mother at Meaux. The Huguenots do capture several cities (including Orleans), and march on Paris.
• October 7 – Bible translations into Welsh: New Testament first published in Welsh, in William Salesbury's translation from the Greek.
• November 10 – Battle of Saint-Denis: Anne de Montmorency, with 16,000 Royalists, falls on Condé's 3,500 Huguenots. The Huguenots surprisingly hold on for some hours before being driven off. Montmorency is mortally wounded.

Date unknown

• King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway founds Fredrikstad in Norway.
• Construction of Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza, designed by Andrea Palladio, begins. It will be one of the most influential designs in architecture.^[1]
• Rugby School, one of the oldest public schools in England, is founded.
• Although sparse maritime trade existed since its founding, the Ming dynasty government of China officially revokes the haijin maritime trade ban, reinstating foreign trade with all countries except Japan.^[2]

• The infamous Sture Murders takes place at the Uppsala Castle in Sweden.

Births

• January 1 – Fabio Colonna, Italian scientist (d. 1640)
• January 4 – François d'Aguilon, Belgian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1617)
• January 12 – Jan Szczęsny Herburt, Polish political writer (d. 1616)
• January 25 – Archduchess Margaret of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1633)
• January 27 – Anna Maria of Hesse-Kassel, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken by marriage (d. 1626)
• February 3 – Anna Maria of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania (d. 1618)
• February 12 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (d. 1620)
• February 23 – Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noblewoman (d. 1618)
• February 24 – Jindřich Matyáš Thurn, Swedish general (d. 1640)
• February 27 – William Alabaster, English poet (d. 1640)
• March 13 – Jacob van Heemskerk, Dutch admiral and explorer (d. 1607)
• March 17 – Akizuki Tanenaga, Japanese samurai and soldier (d. 1614)
• April 10 – John Louis I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Germany noble (d. 1596)
• April 26 – Nicolas Formé, French composer (d. 1638)
• May 2 – Sebald de Weert, Dutch captain, vice-admiral of the Dutch East India Company (d. 1603)
• May 9 – John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1603–1618) (d. 1618)
• May 13 – Don Giovanni de' Medici, Italian military commander and diplomat (d. 1621)
• May 15 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
• June 25 – Jacob Ulfeldt, Danish politician (d. 1630)
• August 14 – Luigi Caponaro, Italian healer (d. 1622)
• August 15 – Philip III, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1588–1620) (d. 1620)
• August 21 – Francis de Sales, Savoyard Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
• September – Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, English landowner (d. 1643)
• September 2 – György Thurzó, Palatine of Hungary (d. 1616)
• September 5 – Date Masamune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1636)
• September 24 – Martin Fréminet, French painter (d. 1619)
• October 10 – Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (d. 1597)
• November – Thomas Nashe, English poet (d. 1600)
• November 1 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
• November 7 – Margherita Farnese, Benedictine nun (d. 1643)
• November 14 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• November 16 – Anna of Saxony, German noblewoman (d. 1593)
• c. November 16 – Minye Kyawswa II of Ava, last crown prince of the Toungoo Empire (Burma) (k. 1599)
• November 21 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
• December 15 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (d. 1643)
• December 18
  • Cornelius a Lapide, Jesuit exegete (d. 1637)
  • Tachibana Muneshige, Japanese samurai and soldier (d. 1643)
• date unknown
  • Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (d. 1595)
  • Pierre Biard, French settler and Jesuit missionary (d. 1622)
  • Adriaen Block, Dutch fur trader and navigator (d. 1624)
  • Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (d. 1589)
  • Arima Harunobu, Japanese Christian daimyo (d. 1612)
  • John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (d. 1650)
  • Willem Schouten, Dutch navigator (d. 1625)
  • Torii Tadamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1628)
  • Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai and soldier (d. 1615)
  • Ban Naoyuki, Japanese samurai and soldier (d. 1615)

Deaths

• January 17 – Sampiero Corso, Corsican mercenary leader (b. 1498)
• January 23 – Jiajing Emperor of China (b. 1507)
• January 26 – Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
• February 10 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1545)
• February 20 – Estácio de Sá, Portuguese officer, founder of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1520)
• March 31 – Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1504)
• April 1 – Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (b. 1537)
• April 18 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
• April 19 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
• May 2 – Marin Držić, Croatian writer (b. 1508)
• June 2 – Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain (b. 1530)
• June 12 – Richard Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
• October 1 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (b. 1508)
• November 12 – Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (b. 1493)
• November 13 – Pedro de la Gasca, viceroy of Peru (b. 1485)
• November 19 – Takeda Yoshinobu, Japanese daimyo (b. 1538)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer (b. 1511)
  • Péter Erdődy, ban of Croatia (b. 1504)
  • Shahghali, khan of Qasim in 1516–1519
  • Lawrence Sheriff, English gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I (b. 1510)
  • Akagawa Motoyasu, Japanese samurai

References

1. Clark, Roger H.; Pause, Michael (2012). Precedents in architecture : analytic diagrams, formative ideas, and partis (4th ed.). Hoboken: Wiley. ISBN 9780470946749.
2. Bertrand, Romain (2011). L'Histoire à parts égales. Paris: Seuil. p. 66. ISBN 978-2-02-105017-2.