Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England ( date of actual birth is unknown ).

* Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, Voivode of Moldavia ( 1552 – 1561 and 1564 – 1568 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

Bernardino Ochino ( 1487, Siena, Republic of Siena – 1564, Austerlitz, Habsburg Moravia ) was an Italian Reformer.

This idea was already rejected as untenable by John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ), and by the time of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588 – 1679 ) it was recognised that the book must have been written much later than the period it depicted.

In 1543 De humani corporis fabrica, the first book on human anatomy, was published and printed in Basel by Andreas Vesalius ( 1514 – 1564 ).

* 1500 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist ( d. 1564 )

* 1564 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist ( d. 1642 )

* Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1503 – 1564 )

A Shakespeare Companion 1564 – 1964.

Shakespeare Companion, 1564 – 1964.

Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 )

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

* Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (~ 1564 – 1624 ) was part of " a reassertion of orthodoxy within Sufism " and was known to his followers as the ' renovator of the second millennium '.

* 1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

* 1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.

* 1509 – John Calvin, French theologian and pastor ( d. 1564 )

Kanem-Bornu peaked during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma ( c. 1564 – 1596 ).

* May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright ( b. 1564 )

* Christopher Marlowe ( 1564 – 1593 ), English dramatist, poet and translator

* Christopher Plunkett, 6th Baron of Dunsany ( d. 1564 )

* Christopher Marlowe ( 1564 – 1593 ), English playwright

In 1564, she was married to Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern ( 1537 – 1575 ).

Gerardus Mercator's 1564 atlas of Europe, and Christopher Saxton's 1579 map authorised by Queen Elizabeth I.

* May 30-Christopher Marlowe, dramatist and poet ( born 1564 )

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

* 1564 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator ( d. 1610 )

* 1564 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator ( d. 1620 )

* probable – Henry Chettle, English writer ( b. 1564 )

** ( O. S., Tuesday ) – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet ( b. 1564 )

* February 3 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator ( b. 1564 )

* May 16 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai ( b. 1564 )

In 1564 Dudley became Earl of Leicester and from 1563 one of the greatest landowners in North Wales and the English West Midlands by royal grants.

In 1564 he fell temporarily into the royal disfavour and was dismissed from court, because Elizabeth suspected he was concerned in the publication of a pamphlet, A Declaration of the Succession of the Crowne Imperial of Ingland, by John Hales, which favoured the claim of Lady Catherine Grey ( sister of Lady Jane Grey ) to the English throne.

The term was first recorded in English in 1564 as a title for the king of Persia, with the spelling " Shaw ".

Enfield was recorded in Domesday Book in 1086 as Enefelde, and as Einefeld in 1214, Enfeld in 1293, and Enfild in 1564: that is ' open land of a man called Ēana ', or ' where lambs are reared ', from the Old English feld with an Old English personal name or with Old English ēan ' lamb '.

* Thomas Cavendish ( 1564 – 1593 ), English Admiral

After the English Reformation ( an uneven process between 1536 and 1564 but at St. Patrick's, effective from about 1537 ), St. Patrick's became an Anglican Church of Ireland Cathedral, although most of the population of the surrounding Pale remained Roman Catholic.

William Adams ( 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620 ), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama ( anjin, " pilot "; sama, a Japanese honorific ) and Miura Anjin ( 三浦按針: " the pilot of Miura "), was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country.

Sussex retired in frustration, and O ' Neill entered into a sustained offensive against the MacDonnells, ostensibly in the interests of ridding the English of Scottish interference in Ireland: he defeated Sorley Boy near Coleraine in the summer of 1564, laying waste his territory ; in 1565 he invaded the Glynns, destroying all Scottish settlements there, and at the Battle of Glentasie he won a decisive victory, in which James MacDonnell and Sorley Boy were taken prisoner and Dunluce Castle fell into O ' Neill's hands.

Henry Chettle ( c. 1564 – c. 1607 ) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era.

Sir Thomas Shirley ( 1564 – c. 1634 ) was an English soldier, adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1622.

Thomas Morton ( 1564 – 1659 ) was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses.

* William Adams ( 1564 – 1620 ), the English navigator, died there.

His attempts to bring the English church into agreement with the reformed churches of Germany and Switzerland led to his suspension for nonconformity in 1564.