1564

1564 (MDLXIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

 Events 
 March 8 –  Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death
 June 22 – Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World
 September 10 – The Battle of Kawanakajima
 Ottoman Turks invade Malta
 Modern pencil becomes common in England
 Conquistadors crossed the Pacific
 Spanish found a colony in the Philippines

 Births 
 February 15 – Galileo Galilei
 April 23 – William Shakespeare

 Deaths 
 March 18 – Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti)