1561

Year 1561 (MDLXI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1561 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1561
MDLXI
Ab urbe condita2314
Armenian calendar1010
ԹՎ ՌԺ
Assyrian calendar6311
Balinese saka calendar1482–1483
Bengali calendar968
Berber calendar2511
English Regnal year3 Eliz. 1  4 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2105
Burmese calendar923
Byzantine calendar7069–7070
Chinese calendar庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
4258 or 4051
     to 
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
4259 or 4052
Coptic calendar1277–1278
Discordian calendar2727
Ethiopian calendar1553–1554
Hebrew calendar5321–5322
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1617–1618
 - Shaka Samvat1482–1483
 - Kali Yuga4661–4662
Holocene calendar11561
Igbo calendar561–562
Iranian calendar939–940
Islamic calendar968–969
Japanese calendarEiroku 4
(永禄4年)
Javanese calendar1480–1481
Julian calendar1561
MDLXI
Korean calendar3894
Minguo calendar351 before ROC
民前351年
Nanakshahi calendar93
Thai solar calendar2103–2104
Tibetan calendar阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
1687 or 1306 or 534
     to 
阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
1688 or 1307 or 535
May 8: Madrid is the new capital of Spain.

Events

Map of New Spain in 1561

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 9 Ángel de Villafañe becomes the new Governor of Spanish Florida, assuming authority over the provinces of La Florida and of Punta de Santa Elena (now Parris Island in the U.S. state of South Carolina).
  • April 14 The citizens of Nuremberg see what appears to be an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and a large crash (with smoke) outside the city. A news notice (an early form of newspaper) is printed on April 14, describing the event.[5]
  • April 17 Diego López de Zúñiga, 4th Count of Nieva becomes the fourth Spanish Viceroy of Peru, administering most of South America after the death on March 30 of Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza.
  • April 19 The Edict of 19 April, confirming the recent recommendation by the Estates General, is promulgated by the regency council for King Charles IX of France in an attempt to prevent a civil war between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Huguenot citizens of France[6]
  • May 8 Madrid is declared the capital of Spain, by Philip II.[7]
  • June 4
  • June 25 Francis Coxe, an English astrologer, is pilloried at Cheapside in London, and makes a public confession of his involvement in "sinistral and divelysh artes".[9]
  • June 29 Erik XIV is crowned King of Sweden.

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

  • Merchant Taylors' School is founded in the City of London by Sir Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar, and Stephen Hales.[15]
  • The first Calvinists settle in England, after fleeing Flanders.
  • The Anglo-Genevan metrical psalter is published, including the Old 100th, the version of the hymn All People That on Earth Do Dwell made from Psalm 100, attributed to the probably-Scottish clergyman and biblical translator William Kethe, exiled in Geneva.[16]
  • Ruy López de Segura develops modern techniques of chess playing in Spain.
  • William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (written early 1553), an early example of extended fiction (specifically horror fiction) in English, is published anonymously in London. This edition appears to have been suppressed, and no copies survive.[17]
  • Between 1561 and 1670, 3,229 alleged witches are executed in southwestern Germany, most by burning.

Births

Fujiwara Seika

Deaths

References

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  2. Michael Questier, Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Oxford University Press, 2019) p.31
  3. Beatriz Pastor; Sergio Callau (January 1, 2011). Lope de Aguirre y la rebelión de los marañones. Parkstone International. pp. 1524–1525. ISBN 978-84-9740-535-5.
  4. Smith, Vincent, Arthur (1919). Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. "Himmelserscheinung über Nürnberg" [Celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg]. NEBIS (in German). Zurich Library. April 14, 1561. (2 pages).
  6. .Roelker, Nancy (1996). One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 251. ISBN 0520086260.
  7. Claudia Winn Sieber (1985). The Invention of a Capital: Philip II and the First Reform of Madrid. Johns Hopkins University. p. 59.
  8. Caroline Allen; Edward Earl of Wessex (1999). Edward Wessex's Crown and Country: A Personal Guide to Royal London. HarperCollins. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-00-414071-1.
  9. "BBC History Magazine vol 12 no 6 (June 2011), p13". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  10. Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and Other Englishmen, With Some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea, ed. by E. Delmar Morgan and C. H. Coote · Volume 1 (Burt Franklin, Publisher, 1886)("on the eight day of August then following I came to Vologda... I therewith departed toward the citie of Moscovia and came thither the twentieth day of the same moneth...") p.122
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  12. "Maybole" in Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical · Volume 5, ed. by Francis H. Groome (T. C. Jack, 1884) p.15
  13. Ken Yagita, Kitakyushu Sengoku History (Imai Shoten, 1999) p.67
  14. Thornton, John (2006): "Elite Women in the Kingdom of Kongo: Historical Perspectives on Women's Political Power", page 447. The Journal of African History, Vol. 47.
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  16. "All People That on Earth Do Dwell". The Cyber Hymnal. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  17. Ringler, William A.; Flachmann, Michael, eds. (1988). "Preface". Beware the Cat. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library.
  18. "Francis Bacon | Biography, Philosophy, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  19. "Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Suffolk | English commander | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
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  21. Vella, Horatio C. R. (2003). "Jean Quintin's Insulae Melitae Descriptio (1536) : an anniversary and a discussion on its sources" (PDF). Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts. 2. University of Malta: 155–171. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 19, 2020.
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