* 1561 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet ( d. 1627 )

* May 24 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet ( b. 1561 )

In the sixteenth century, the Spanish adopted the copulative conjunction y (“ and ”) to distinguish a person ’ s surnames ; thus the Andalusian Baroque writer Luis de Góngora y Argote ( 1561 – 1627 ), the Aragonese painter Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes ( 1746 – 1828 ), the Andalusian artist Pablo Diego Ruiz y Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ), and the Madrilenian liberal philosopher José Ortega y Gasset ( 1883 – 1955 ).

Luis de Milán ( also known as Lluís del Milà or Luys Milán ) ( c. 1500 – 1561 or possibly later ) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist ( instrument similar to the guitar ), and writer on music.

Algeria 1 559 km, Mauritania ( de facto ) 1561 km, Spain ( Ceuta ) 6. 3 km, Spain ( Melilla ) 9. 6 km

* 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, soldier and politician ( d. 1634 )

In 1561, Martial de Loménie, secretary of state for finances under King Charles IX, became lord of Versailles.

** Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish novelist and poet ( d. 1561 )

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In 1560 under admiral Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn this admiralty was relocated near Ghent and in 1561 the Habsburg naval forces were also moved to Veere.

Slight variations of this confession existed in the French Confession de Foy ( 1559 ), the Scottish Confessio Fidei ( 1560 ) the Belfian Ecclasiarum Belgicarum Confessio ( 1561 ) and the Heidelberg Catechism ( 1563 ).

But the play was the starting-point of French classical tragedy, and was soon followed by the Médée ( 1553 ) of Jean de la Peruse and the Aman ( 1561 ) of André de Rivaudeau.

There are suggestions, based on an account in Livre de Canonerie published in 1561 and reproduced in Revue d ' Artillerie of March 1908, that indirect fire was used by the Burgundians in the 16th Century.

The word " gambit " was originally applied to chess openings in 1561 by Spanish priest Rúy López de Segura, from an Italian expression dare il gambetto ( to put a leg forward in order to trip someone ).

Lope de Aguirre ( c. 1510 – 27 October 1561 ) was a Basque Spanish conquistador in South America.

Die Rebellion des baskischen Konquistadors Lope de Aguirre in Historiographie und Geschichtsfiktion ( 1561 – 1992 ).

* Letter from Lope de Aguirre to King Philip of Spain, 1561

# Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier ( 1482 – 1561 )-sister of Charles III

While French Huguenots had derisively bestowed the name Triumvirate on the alliance formed in 1561 between Catholic Francis, Duke of Guise, Anne de Montmorency, and Jacques Dalbon, Seigneur de Saint Andre during the French Wars of Religion, in later years the term would be used to describe other arrangements within France.

** Nicolas de Montreux, novelist, poet and dramatist ( born c. 1561 )

The opening is named after the 16th century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, who made a systematic study of this and other openings in the 150-page book on chess Libro del Ajedrez written in 1561.

In 1561, during an audience held in Santo Domingo, it was recommended that Isla de la Mona should become a part of that colony ( which at the time occupied the eastern half of Hispaniola ).

La Granjilla was designed and constructed between 1561 and 1569, by Gaspar de Vega, Juan Bautista de Toledo, Juan de Herrera, Pedro de Tolosa, Fray Marcos de Cardona and Petre Janson.

* September 19 – Just weeks after arrival at Pensacola, the Spanish missionary colony is decimated by a hurricane that kills hundreds, sinks five ships, with a galleon, and grounds a caravel ; the 1, 000 survivors divide to relocate / resupply the settlement, but suffer famine & attacks, and abandon the effort in 1561.

After a Spanish attack in 1544 in which Manco Inca Yupanqui was killed, his son Sayri Tupac assumed the title of Sapa Inca ( emperor, literally " only Inca "), before accepting Spanish authority in 1558, moving to Cuzco, and dying ( perhaps by poison ) in 1561.

; 1561: Joseph Nasi encourages Jewish settlement in Tiberias, having fled the Spanish Inquisition fourteen years previously in 1547

He died in 1561 and in 1570 his son, Jacob, emigrated to Frankfurt am Main to escape from the Spanish persecution of the Huguenots.

– February 26, 1561 ) was a Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish.

Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre entered the city in 1561.

* Sebastiano Aguilera de Heredia ( 1561 – 1627 ), Spanish composer and monk

The city was first founded in 1561 by Spanish explorer Ñuflo de Chavez about 200 km east of its current location, and was moved several times until it was finally established on the Piray River in the late 16th century.

Rodrigo ( Ruy ) López de Segura ( c. 1530 – c. 1580 ) was a Spanish priest and later bishop in Segura whose 1561 book Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first definitive books about modern chess in Europe, only after Pedro Damiano's 1512 book.

In 1561 this encomienda was revoked and laid under the Spanish Crown directly, and in the Relacion Geográfica from 1665 this " realengo " appears to be administrated by corregidor Cristóbal Martínez de Maldonado.

In 1561, he began translating the Song of Songs, a book of the Old Testament, into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

King Philip II ( r. 1556 – 1598 ) moved the Spanish court to Madrid in 1561.

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo in his History of All the Things that Have happened in the Kingdom of Chile mentions Colocolo in 1561 as a principal leader in Arauco and is said to be a friend until death to the Spanish.

In 1561, the island was seized by Lope de Aguirre, a notoriously violent and rebellious conquistador who held the islanders in a grip of terror until he returned to the mainland in an attempt to take Panama from the Spanish crown.

He was also the great nephew of both George Sandys ( 2 March 1577 – March 1644 ), an English traveller, colonist and poet ; and of Sir Edwin Sandys ( 9 December 1561 – October 1629 ), an English statesman and one of the founders of the London Company.

* February 21 – Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet ( b. 1561 )

* February 21-Robert Southwell, poet and Catholic martyr ( born c. 1561 )

Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlstane ( 1496 – 1 August 1586 ) was a Senator of the College of Justice, an Ordinary Lord of Session from 1561 until 1584, and notable Scottish poet.

* Olivier de Magny, poet ( 1529 – 1561 )

( On the life and achievements of Bairam Khan, 1524 ?- 1561, ruler in the Mogul Empire and Khan Khanan Abdur Rahim Khan, 1556 – 1627, Braj poet.

From 1560 to 1564 he lived in Vienna, where in 1561 he became poet laureate.