1567

1567 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1567 MDLXVII
Ab urbe condita	2320
Armenian calendar	1016 ԹՎ ՌԺԶ
Assyrian calendar	6317
Balinese saka calendar	1488–1489
Bengali calendar	973–974
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) 4264 or 4057     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4265 or 4058
Coptic calendar	1283–1284
Discordian calendar	2733
Ethiopian calendar	1559–1560
Hebrew calendar	5327–5328
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1623–1624
- Shaka Samvat	1488–1489
- Kali Yuga	4667–4668
Holocene calendar	11567
Igbo calendar	567–568
Iranian calendar	945–946
Islamic calendar	974–975
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 10 (永禄１０年)
Javanese calendar	1486–1487
Julian calendar	1567 MDLXVII
Korean calendar	3900
Minguo calendar	345 before ROC 民前345年
Nanakshahi calendar	99
Thai solar calendar	2109–2110
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1693 or 1312 or 540     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1694 or 1313 or 541

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 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 Lochleven Castle.

July–December

• 24 July – 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.
• September 9 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alva arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Horne for treason.
• September 29 – The Second War of Religion begins in France when the 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.
• 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

• The Duke of Alba arrives in the Netherlands with Spanish forces to suppress unrest there. He replaces Margaret of Parma as Governor of the Netherlands. Prince William of Orange is outlawed, and Count Lamoral of Egmont imprisoned.
• King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway founds Fredrikstad in Norway.
• Rugby School, one of the oldest public schools in England, is founded.
• Welsh Bible: New Testament first published in Welsh.
• Although sparse maritime trade existed since its founding, the Ming Dynasty government of China officially revokes the hai jin maritime trade ban, reinstating foreign trade with all countries except Japan.

Births

• January 28 – Walter Gulton, English writer (d. 1592)
• February 12 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (d. 1620)
• May 15 – Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
• August 21 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
• September 5 – Date Masamune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1615)
• November – Thomas Nashe, English poet (d. 1600)
• November 1 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
• November 14 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
• November 21 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)
• December 15 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (d. 1643)
• date unknown
  • Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (d. 1595)
  • William Alabaster, English poet (d. 1640)
  • Pierre Biard, French settler and Jesuit missionary (d. 1622)
  • Adriaen Block, Dutch fur trader and navigator (d. 1624)
  • Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (d. 1635)
  • Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (d. 1589)
  • Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (d. 1643)
  • Jan Szczęsny Herburt, political writer (d. 1616)
  • Arima Harunobu, Japanese Christian daimyo (d. 1612)
  • Thomas Lake, Secretary of State to King James I (d. 1630)
  • John Parkinson, English herbalist and botanist (d. 1650)
  • Willem Schouten, Dutch navigator (d. 1625)
  • Torii Tadamasa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1628)
  • Akizuki Tanenaga, Japanese samurai and soldier (d. 1614)
  • Yodo-Dono, Japanese concubine of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • Sanada Yukimura, Japanese warrior

Deaths

• January 17 – Sampieru Corsu, 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 – Philipp I 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)
• 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)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Beccon, English Protestant reformer (b. 1511)
  • Marin Držić, Croatian writer (b. 1508)
  • Petar Erdödy, ban of Croatia (b. 1504)
  • Shahgali, khan of Qasim in 1516–1519
  • Lawrence Sheriff, English gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I (b. 1510)