1564

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1561 1562 1563 – 1564 – 1565 1566 1567

Events

• March 8 – Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death
• June 22 – Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World
• September 10 – The Battle of Kawanakajima
• Ottoman Turks invade Malta
• Modern pencil becomes common in England
• Conquistadors crossed the Pacific
• Spanish found a colony in the Philippines

Births

• February 15 – Galileo Galilei
• April 23 – William Shakespeare

Deaths

• March 18 – Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti)