Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, Florida

In the year 1564, French settlers abandon Charlesfort, the first French attempt at colonizing what is now the United States, and establish Fort Caroline in Florida (Jun 22), the Ronneby Bloodbath takes place in Denmark (now in Sweden) (Sep 4), Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi sails from Mexico, later to conquer the Philippine Islands (Nov 21) - and all these fine people were born:

1564-0215 Galileo Galilei* physicist/mathematician/astronomer - Pisa, Duchy of Florence (77)

1564-0309 David Fabricius* priest/astronomer/ cartographer - Esens, East Freesia (1617/53)

1564-0423 William Shakespeare* (B 26th) author/playwright - Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1616/52)

1564-0611 Joseph Heintz the Elder* Swiss artist/ draftsman/architect - Basel, Holy Roman Empire (1609/45)
1564-0628 Cort Aslakssøn* astronomer/philosopher - Bergen, Norway (1624)

1564-0824 Patrick Forbes* bishop - Corse Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (1635/70)

1564-0924 William Adams* 三浦按針 sailor/samurai - Gillingham, Kent, England (1620/55)
1564-0925 Magnus Brahe* nobleman - Tynnelsö, Sweden (1633)

1564-1026 Hans Leo Hassler* organist/ composer - Nuremberg, Germany (1612/47)

1564-1111 Martinus Smiglecius* Jesuit philosopher/logician - Lwów, Kingdom of Poland (1618/53)

1564-1225 Nicolaus Mulerius* Dutch astronomer/medical academic - Bruges, Belgium (1630/65)

Updated 18.2.2021
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