Uppsala Castle, the site of the Sture Murders

In the year 1567, Portuguese forces drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro (Jan 20), a Spanish mercenary army surprises and kills a band of rebels in Oosterweel in the Habsburg Netherlands, beginning the Eighty Years' War (Mar 13), the infamous Sture Murders take place at Uppsala Castle in Sweden (May 24), Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and is replaced by her one-year-old son (Jul 24) - and all these fine people were born:

1567-xxxx Fabio Colonna* Italian naturalist/botanist - Naples (1640/73)
1567-xxxx John Parkinson* herbalist/apothecary/botanist - Yorkshire, England (1650/c.82)

1567-0112 Jan Szczęsny Herburt* Polish political writer/diplomat - Poland (1616/49) 

1567-0212 Thomas Campion* physician/poet/ composer - London, England (1620/53)
1567-0227 William Alabaster* poet/playwright/ religious writer - Hadleigh, Suffolk, England (1640/73)

1567-0313 Jacob van Heemskerck (B) Dutch admiral/explorer - Amsterdam, Spanish Netherlands (1607/40)

1567-0426 Nicolas Formé* composer - Paris, France (1638/71)

1567-0515 Claudio Monteverdi (B) Italian string player/composer/ choirmaster - Cremona, Holy Roman Empire (1643/76)

1567-0625 Jacob Ulfeldt* explorer/politician/diplomat - Bavelse, Denmark (1630/63)

1567-0814 Luigi Caponaro* Italian physician/dispensor of pro-bono medical advice - Salerno (1622/c.54)

1567-0905 Date Masamune* 伊達 政宗 daimyo/founder of the modern-day city of Sendai - Yonezawa Castle, Yamagata, Japan (1636/68)
1567-0924 Martin Fréminet* painter - Paris, France (1619/51)

1567-1114 Maurice of Orange* Dutch stadtholder/prince - Dillenburg, County of Nassau, Holy Roman Empire (1625/57)
1567-1121 Anne de Xainctonge* founder of the first non-cloistered women’s religious community - Dijon, France (1621/53)

1567-1215 Christoph Demantius* German composer/music theorist/writer - Reichenberg, Bohemia (1643/75)

Updated 23.11.2022
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