Editing 1566 (section)

=== 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>