Events

• The Duke of Alva 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.
• 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.
• February 10 - Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary I of Scotland, is murdered at the Provost's House in Edinburgh.
• May 15 - Mary I of Scotland marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell.
• June 15 - Mary I of Scotland is defeated at Carberry Hill by the Scottish nobles. She is imprisoned in Lochleven Castle.
• July 24 - Mary I of Scotland abdicates the throne, succeeded by her son King James VI of Scotland.
• 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 - Beginning of the Second War of Religion 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.
• King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway founds Fredrikstad in Norway.

Births

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

See also Category: 1567 births.

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 I of Scotland (born 1545)
• March 31 - Philipp I of Hesse (born 1504)
• April 18 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (born 1503)
• June 2 - Shane O'Neill, Irish chieftain (born 1530)
• June 12 - Richard Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1490)
• October 1 - Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (born 1508)
• November 12 - Anne de Montmorency, constable of France (born 1493)
• Thomas Beccon, English protestant reformer (born 1511)
• Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (born 1501)
• Marin Drzic, Croatian writer (born 1508)
• Shahgali, khan of Qasim in 1516-1519
• Lawrence Sheriff, English gentleman and grocer to Elizabeth I (born 1510)
• Michael Stifel, German mathematician (born 1487)
• Jan Krzysztof Tarnowski, Polish nobleman (born 1537)

See also Category: 1567 deaths.

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