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1561

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

Events of 1561

The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots.
The first Calvinists settle in England after fleeing Flanders.
Madrid is declared the capital of Spain by Philip II.
St. Paul's Cathedral in London is badly damaged by fire and the spire is destroyed after being struck by lightning.
Ruy López develops modern techniques of chess playing in Spain.
Sweden conquers Livonia (modern Estonia).
Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome.
Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is finished (started in 1534).
Pensacola, the first European settlement in North America, and its support fleet were both destroyed by a hurricane. Two survivors managed to walk the long arduous journey to Mexico City. The city was not re-settled until 1698.
Between 1561 and 1670 3229 witches are executed in southwestern Germany most by burning.

January 6 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656)
January 22 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, scientist, and statesman (died 1626)
July 11 - Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet (died 1627)
July 17 - Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (died 1602)
August 20 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (died 1633)
August 24 - Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
August 25 - Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer (died 1632)
September 10 - Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (died 1634)
September 29 - Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (died 1615)
October 27 - Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
December 7 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625)
December 9 - Edwin Sandys, English founder of the colony of Virginia (died 1629)
date unknown

John Harington, English writer (died 1612)
Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York (died 1631)
Stephen Bachiler, non-conformist minister and pioneer settler of New England (died 1656)