Editing 1566 (section)

== Events ==
[[File:II Selim.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Selim II]] becomes [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].]]
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; Cardinal [[Michele Ghislieri]] is [[1565–1566 papal conclave|elected as the new Pope]] by two-thirds of the College of Cardinals, to succeed [[Pope Pius IV]], who had died 28 days earlier on December 8. Ghislieri becomes the 225th pope, and takes the regnal name [[Pope Pius V]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Gregory Sobolewski|title=Martin Luther, Roman Catholic Prophet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WZDYAAAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Marquette University Press|isbn=978-0-87462-649-0|page=96}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; In one of the first gun assassinations in Japanese (if not world) history, [[Mimura Iechika]], the [[daimyō]] (warlord) of the [[Bitchū Province]], is shot dead by two brothers (Endo Matajiro and Yoshijiro), sent by his rival [[Ukita Naoie]].
* [[March 28]] &ndash; The foundation stone of [[Valletta]], which will become [[Malta]]'s capital city, is laid by [[Jean Parisot de Valette]], [[Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=De Lucca |first1=Denis |title=The city-fortress of Valletta in the Baroque age |journal=Baroque Routes Newsletter |date=2013 |volume=9 |pages=8–17 |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/40455 |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* March &ndash; The [[Hanseatic League|Hanseatic]] city of [[Lübeck]] launches the [[galleon]] ''[[Adler von Lübeck]]'', probably the largest ship in the world at this time.<ref>Van der Horst(e), Peter (1676). ''[https://archive.today/20120709170315/http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=294792 Beschreibung von der Kunst der Schiffahrt – Zum andernmahl auffgeleget und mit einem Anhang vermehret, worin beschrieben wird der Anfang und Fortgang der Schiffahrt]''. 2nd ed. Lübeck: Schmalhertzens Erven. (PDF).</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 5]] &ndash; The [[Compromise of Nobles]] is presented to [[Margaret of Parma]], [[List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands|Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands]], but it succeeds only in delaying the beginning of the [[Eighty Years' War]] in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lem |first1=Anton van der |title=Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 |date=15 March 2019 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-78914-088-0 |page=57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m4KGDwAAQBAJ&dq=Compromise+of+Nobles+Margaret+of+Parma+%225+april+1566%22+eighty+years+war&pg=PA57 |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pettegree |first1=Andrew |title=The Reformation World |date=2000 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-16357-6 |page=352 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZdSVnJDClesC&dq=Compromise+of+Nobles+Margaret+of+Parma+5+april+1565&pg=PA352 |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 1]]
**[[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]], King of France, completes his [[Charles IX's grand tour of France|grand tour of his kingdom]], returning to [[Paris]] a little more than 27 months and {{convert|2500|mi|km}} after his departure on January 24, 1564.<ref>''Les Lettres de pardon du voyage de Charles IX (1565-1566)'', ed. by (Société de l'Histoire de France, 2010)</ref>
**[[Suleiman the Magnificent]], the [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]], begins his last campaign, departing from [[Constantinople]] at the head of one of the largest armies he has ever commanded, with a plan to attack [[Vienna]], capital of the [[Holy Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Turnbull | first=Stephen R | title=The Ottoman Empire, 1326–1699 | publisher=Osprey Publishing Ltd | year=2003 | page=55 |isbn=978-0-415-96913-0}}</ref> However, he dies in September.
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor]] imposes a ''[[Reichsexekution]]'' upon [[John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony]]. [[Augustus, Elector of Saxony]] is directed to carry out the order to begin the siege of the city of [[Gotha]] and John Frederick's home at the Grimmenstein Castle. 
* [[May 25]] &ndash; King Philip II of Spain issues [[persecution of Muslims#Iberian Peninsula|laws against the remaining Spanish Muslims]], including a ban against use of the [[Arabic language]], wearing of traditional Arab or Muslim clothing, a requirement that doors in their homes and buildings be kept open every Friday and on Muslim feast days (in order to verify that Muslim rituals are not observed), and forces the tearing down of public and private bathhouses (to prevent purification rites).<ref>Rodrigo de Zayas, ''Les Morisques et le racisme d'état'' (La Différence, 1992) p. 230</ref>
* [[May 30]] &ndash; The Augsburg Imperial Coin Edict issues from the Holy Roman Empire, authorizing a new coin, the ''[[thaler]]''. The new unit of money, the [[Reichsthaler]], follows standards providing that the weight should be based on one-ninth of a [[Cologne mark]] of silver (the "[[Münzfuß#Medieval and modern coin standards|9 Thaler standard]]") with each minted coin to weigh 29.23 grams and to contain 25.96 grams of silver.<ref>Wolfgang Trapp, ''Kleines Handbuch der Münzkunde und des Geldwesens in Deutschland'' (Reclam, 1999) p. 87.</ref> The word ''thaler'', an abbreviation for the "Joachimsthaler" minted from the silver mines at [[Jáchymov|Joachimsthal]] (modern-day Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), is [[Anglicisation|anglicized]] to [[dollar]], the name of currencies in many nations.
* [[June 10]] &ndash; In [[Znojmo]] (in the modern-day Czech Republic), [[William of Rosenberg|Wilhelm von Rosenberg]], commander of the Army of the [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], begins raising an army to fight an expected invasion by the Ottoman Empire.<ref>"Rosenberg (Familienartikel)", by Annemarie Enneper, in ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (in German) (Duncker & Humblot, 2005), vol. 22, pp. 57–58</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius V]] issues an edict to expel most prostitutes from Rome, and the [[Papal States]].<ref>Christina J. Moose, ''Great Events from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era, 1454-1600'', Volume 2 (Salem Press, 2005) p.701</ref> The edict is soon reversed because of the loss of revenue from the taxation of houses of prostitution.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Elizabeth S. |title=Seen and known: prostitutes in the cityscape of late-sixteenth-century Rome |journal=Renaissance Studies |date=1998 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=392–409 |jstor=24412612 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24412612 |access-date=29 November 2023 |issn=0269-1213}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; Feodor Stefanovich Kolychov is consecrated as the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church as [[Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow]] with the approval of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible,<ref>[https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/01/09/100135-hieromartyr-philip-metropolitan-of-moscow-and-all-russia "Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia"], Orthodox Church in America</ref> but soon defies the Tsar. Philip will be deposed in 16 months later and put to death on December 23, 1568.  
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[John Sigismund Zápolya]], uncrowned claimant to the throne of the [[List of Hungarian monarchs|King of Hungary]], leads an invasion of Upper Hungary on the orders of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman.<ref>László Kontler, ''Millennium in Central Europe: A History of Hungary'' (Atlantisz Publishing, 1999) p.148</ref>
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Philip II of Spain|King Philip II of Spain]] sends a final [[Letters from the Segovia Woods|letter to the administrators and Catholic bishops]] of the [[Spanish Netherlands]], rejecting a request to abolish ordinances treating [[Protestantism|Protestants]] as [[heresy|heretics]].<ref>Ernst H. Kossman and Albert F. Mellink, ''Texts Concerning the Revolt of the Netherlands''. Cambridge University Press, 1974) pp. 69-75</ref> The decision leads to an uprising against Spain by [[Calvinism|Calvinists]] and ultimately to the [[Eighty Years War]].
* [[August 6]] &ndash; The [[siege of Szigetvár]] is begun by [[Suleiman the Magnificent]], [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horváth |first1=Jenő |title=Magyar hadi krónika: a magyar nemzet ezeréves küzdelmeinek katonai története |date=1895 |publisher=Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Hadtudományi Bizottsága |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hc9AAAAAYAAJ&dq=Szigetv%C3%A1r+szulejm%C3%A1n+ostroma+%221566.+augusztus+6.%22&pg=RA1-PA87 |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=hu}}</ref> This is the [[Ottoman Empire]] at its greatest extent.
* [[August 10]] &ndash; The ''[[Beeldenstorm]]'', also called the "Iconoclastic Fury", begins as Protestant [[Calvinists]] engage in widespread destruction of religious art in the what are now the Netherlands and Belgium.<ref>{{cite book|last=Arnade|first=Peter J.|title=Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots: the Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt|url=https://archive.org/details/beggarsiconoclas00arna|url-access=limited|location=Ithaca, NY|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-8014-7496-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/beggarsiconoclas00arna/page/103 103]–104}}</ref> 
* [[August 16]] &ndash; The ''Beeldenstorm'' arrives at [[Ypres]] and the [[St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres|St Martin's Cathedral]] is plundered, with the library and artifiacts of Bishop [[Martin Rythovius]] burned.
*[[August 25]] &ndash; The vandalism of the ''Beeldenstorm'' reaches [[Leiden]].
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] dies in his tent of natural causes aged 71 the day before the end of the [[siege of Szigetvár]],<ref name="sul">{{cite book |last1=Pap |first1=Norbert |title=The Battle for Central Europe |date=21 January 2019 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-39623-4 |pages=539–552 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004396234/BP000028.xml |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=en |chapter=The Pilgrimage Town (Türbe Kasabası) of Sultan Süleyman at Szigetvár}}</ref> and [[Selim II]] succeeds him as [[Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SELİM II |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/selim-ii |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi |access-date=27 November 2023 |language=tr}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; The [[siege of Szigetvár]] ends in a fierce battle with the annihilation of 2,300 Hungarian and Croatian defenders, including their general, [[Nikola Šubić Zrinski]], annihilated by an army of 90,000 soldiers of the [[Ottoman Empire]], under [[Sokollu Mehmed Pasha]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=Great Sieges in World History: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century |date=15 February 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-4408-6803-0 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qErEEAAAQBAJ&dq=Szigetv%C3%A1r+%2290000%22&pg=PA72 |access-date=29 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Moln |first1=Enikő |last2=Basa |first2=R |title=A Szigeti Veszedelem and the Turkish Wars |journal=e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association |date=2010 |issue=3 |pages=1–17 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=145355 |access-date=29 November 2023 |language=English |issn=1936-8879}}</ref> Before charging out with his remaining 600 troops, General Zrinski orders the gates to the fortress to be opened and fires a large cannon, loaded with broken iron, killing hundreds of Ottoman attackers as they enter.<ref name=Shelton>Edward Shelton, ''The Book of Battles: or, Daring Deeds by Land and Sea'' (Houlston and Wright, 1867) pp.82-83</ref> As a final measure, according to one source, Zrinski orders a long fuse to be lit to the fortress [[gunpowder magazine]] and the powder explodes while thousands of Ottomans are inside.<ref name="Shelton" />

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 2]] &ndash; [[Richard Onslow (Solicitor General)]] is elected as the Speaker of the English House of Commons by a vote of 82 to 70.  
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland|Catherine of the Austrian Habsburgs]], Queen of consort of Poland since 1553 as wife of [[Sigismund II Augustus]], leaves Poland to return to Austria after the failure of her marriage. She never comes back to Poland, though she remains the official queen consort until her death in 1572.<ref>{{cite book |last=Duczmal |first=Małgorzata |title=Jogailaičiai | location=Vilnius |year=2012 |publisher=[[Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras]] |isbn=978-5-420-01703-6 | language= Lithuanian |translator=Birutė Mikalonienė |translator2=Vyturys Jarutis |page=319}}</ref>
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Gastón de Peralta, 3rd Marquess of Falces]] becomes the [[List of viceroys of New Spain|Viceroy of New Spain]], replacing [[Francisco Ceinos]]. Peralta is removed from office by King Philip II after charges are made that Peralta is planning a rebellion against the crown.<ref>Manuel García Puron, ''México y sus gobernantes'' (in Spanish)(Joaquín Porrua Publishing, 1984)</ref>
* [[October 28]] &ndash; In [[Kneiphof]], a city in the [[Duchy of Prussia]] (modern-day Ostrov Immanuinga Kanta in Russia), [[Albert, Duke of Prussia]] has three of the town's five councilors beheaded on charges of causing political and religious disputes with the other Prussian states. [[Johann Funck]], Matthias Horst, and Hans Schnell are executed in the town's marketplace, while [[Paul Skalich]] and Johann Steinbach are able to flee the country.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/newschaffherzog13haucgoog/page/410/mode/1up?view=theater"Funck, Johann"], by Paul Tsackert in ''The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge'', ed. by Samuel Macauley Jackson (Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1909) pp.410-411</ref>
* [[November 5]] &ndash; Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the English Parliament and champions [[English nationalism]], asking "Was I not born in this realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is there any cause I should alienate myself from being careful over this country? Is not my kingdom here?"<ref>''Elizabeth I: Collected Works'', ed. by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, and Mary Beth Rose, (University of Chicago Press, 2002), p.95</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; By decree of King [[Philip II of Spain]], the content of gold in the Spanish [[gold escudo]], is raised from 350 maravedis (equivalent to 338 [[centigram]]s) of gold to 400 (386 cg) and equivalent to 16 silver reales.<ref>"El Marviedi— Su Grandeza y Decadencia", in ''Revista de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos'' (March–April, 1905) p.218</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; At the Craigmillar Castle, the advisers to Mary, Queen of Scots – [[James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray]]; Secretary of State [[William Maitland of Lethington]]; Lord Chancellor  [[George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly]]; [[Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll]]; and [[James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell]] – advise her to divorce her husband, [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]]. She refuses and the advisers decide that Darnley must be killed.<ref>''Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots'', ed. by Agnes Strickland (Henry Colburn, 1848) p.37.</ref>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; The [[Baptism of James VI|baptism of Prince James, son of Mary Queen of Scots]], takes place at [[Stirling Castle]]
[[File:Mostar1.gif|thumb|The [[Stari Most]] bridge]]

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* Between [[July 19]], 1566 and [[July 7]], [[1567]] (during the Islamic calendar year 974 AH) &ndash; The first bridge crossing the [[Neretva]] River at [[Mostar]] in [[Herzegovina]] is completed by the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The white [[marble]] bridge becomes known as ''[[Stari Most]]'' ("Old Bridge").</onlyinclude>