1564 year

• Clashes between the people and the guards in Antwerp during the execution of the trunks-monk Christoph Fabricius.
• The noble opposition in the Netherlands formed around members of the Council of State: Count Egmont, Prince of Orange and Admiral Gorn. The resignation of Granwell and the withdrawal of Spanish troops.
• After the death of Ferdinand, his eldest son Maximilian received the empire, the second son Ferdinand - Tyrol and Forward Austria, Karl - Styria, Carinthia and Krajina.
• 1564-1576 - Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , King of Hungary (until 1572) and Czech Republic (until 1575) Maximilian II .
• The decision of the Czech Sejm that the king has no right to give the noble title in the Czech Republic to foreigners.
• 1564-1605 - the head of the European Calvinists Theodore Beza (1519-1605).
• January 26 - The Battle of Chashniki , during the Livonian War ^[1] .
• March 1, according to the old style - the " Apostle " of Ivan Fedorov was released - the first accurately dated Russian book. Several books have survived without a date, which are considered printed before the Apostle.
• July 2 - the defeat of Russian troops on the Ulle River (near Polotsk) and near Orsha ^[1] .
• April - the flight to Lithuania of Prince Andrei Kurbsky .
• July - the first Russian attempt to take Ozerische fortress
• September - unsuccessful siege of Polotsk by Lithuanian troops Grigory Khodkevich
• November - Ozerische fortress was taken by Russian troops
• December - the departure of Ivan the Terrible, first to Kolomna, then to Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda . The beginning of the Oprichnina .

See also: Category: Born in 1564

• February 15 - Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Italian physicist and astronomer.
• April - William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English playwright.
• William Adams is an English navigator, navigator and merchant. It is considered the first Briton to reach the coast of Japan .
• Abraham Blumart is a Dutch artist.
• Federico Borromeo - Italian priest, cardinal since 1587, archbishop of Milan since 1595, patron of the arts and sciences.
• Heinrich Julius Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttelsky - Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttelsky since 1589, the first rector of the Protestant Helmstedt University , founded by his father, Duke Julius , to whom he inherited.
• Christopher Marlowe is an English poet, translator and playwright of the Elizabethan era , one of Shakespeare's most prominent predecessors.
• Francisco Pacheco is a Spanish artist, art theorist and poet, a teacher of such brush masters as Velazquez and Cano , who had a major influence on the development of painting in Spain in the 17th century.
• David Fabrice is a pastor in East Friesland , known for his work in astronomy.
• Hans Leo von Hasler is a German composer and organist.

See also: Category: Deaths in 1564

• January 26 - Peter Ivanovich Shuisky , Russian military and statesman.
• February 18 - Michelangelo Buonarroti , Italian sculptor, artist and poet.
• Andreas Vesalius is a doctor and anatomist, a life doctor of Charles V , then Philip II . The younger contemporary of Paracelsus , the founder of scientific anatomy .
• Jean Calvin - French theologian, church reformer , founder of Calvinism .
• Ferdinand I - king of Hungary and Bohemia since 1526, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire since 1556 (formally since 1558), the founder of the youngest (Austrian) branch of the Habsburg house. He was also Archduke of Austria, and it was during his reign of Austria that the Turks were defeated near Vienna ( 1529 )