1561

1561 (MDLXI) was a common year beginning on a Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Map of New Spain in 1561

Events

• On March 2, the Spanish Pedro del Castillo founded the City of Mendoza, the current capital of the Argentine province of the same name.
• On June 5, in the municipality of Cavour, in the Piedmont, Italy, we signed the Peace of Cavour, or Peace of the Valdenses.
• August 20: In the current province of Jujuy (Argentina), Juan Pérez de Zurita founded the village of Nieva. Because of the ill-treatment of the Omaguacas Indians, in 1563 they rebel and set fire to the ranching.
• In Bolivia, the Spanish Ñuflo de Chávez founded Santa Cruz de la Sierra on February 26.
• In Venezuela, the Spanish Juan de Maldonado founded the village of San Cristobal.
• In Spain, King Felipe II moved the Court from Toledo to the village of Madrid, which became the capital of the country from that time.
• Potosí capitula with the Count of Nieva on 21 November, for the seat of mines of Potosí to be the Imperial Villa of Potosí, exenting it from the jurisdiction of the city of La Plata.
• From the end of May to June, it is produced in Calabria, Italy, the "mature of the Valdenses". The Valdense religion populations, from the Valdense Valleys of Piedmont that settled in Calabria since the centuryXIIIlived quietly until the centuryXVIwhen they began to openly profess their reformed faith. Submitted by the Inquisition to persecutions and a regime of repressive control, they rebelled by provoking the intervention of the Spanish troops of Virreinato de Nápoles, who made thousands of victims.
• August 22 The city of Ocozocoautla was founded.

Births

• Luis de Góngora: Spanish poet and playwright.
• Francis Bacon: Renaissance philosopher.
• Santorio Santorio: Italian doctor

Deaths

• 6 January: Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, a Florentine painter (n. 1483).
• Alonso Berruguete, Spanish sculptor.
• Olivier de Magny, French poet.
• Rüstem Pasha, husband of Mihrimah Sultan and great view of the Ottoman Empire.
• Claude Garamond, French printer and typographer.
• Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, marquis de Cañete, and virrey of Peru.
• Sayri Tupac, son of Manco Inca Yupanqui.
• September 25: Şehzade Bayezid, the son of the sultan and the sultan hurrem