1564

1564 (MDLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

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

1564 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1564 MDLXIV
Ab urbe condita	2317
Armenian calendar	1013 ԹՎ ՌԺԳ
Assyrian calendar	6314
Balinese saka calendar	1485–1486
Bengali calendar	971
Berber calendar	2514
English Regnal year	6 Eliz. 1 – 7 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2108
Burmese calendar	926
Byzantine calendar	7072–7073
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4260 or 4200     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4261 or 4201
Coptic calendar	1280–1281
Discordian calendar	2730
Ethiopian calendar	1556–1557
Hebrew calendar	5324–5325
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1620–1621
- Shaka Samvat	1485–1486
- Kali Yuga	4664–4665
Holocene calendar	11564
Igbo calendar	564–565
Iranian calendar	942–943
Islamic calendar	971–972
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 7 (永禄７年)
Javanese calendar	1483–1484
Julian calendar	1564 MDLXIV
Korean calendar	3897
Minguo calendar	348 before ROC 民前348年
Nanakshahi calendar	96
Thai solar calendar	2106–2107
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1690 or 1309 or 537     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1691 or 1310 or 538

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)