1564 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1564.

Events

January – János Zsámboky completes the preface to his Emblemata.
February 6 – John Calvin, in the throes of his final illness, preaches his last sermon, in Geneva.
March 1 – Ivan Fyodorov with Pyotr Mstislavets prints the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles, the first printed work in the Russian language that can be dated, at the Moscow Print Yard.
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*A revised edition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, authorised by the Council of Trent, is printed in Venice.
*A chained library with access for the public is attached to the church of St. Walburgis in Zutphen, Netherlands. It will still be extant with its original fittings in the 21st century.

February 26 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet
March 9 – David Fabricius, German theologian
March 20 – Thomas Morton, English polemicist and bishop
April 26 – William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet
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*Jean D'Espagnet, French lawyer, politician and author
*Kryštof Harant, Czech nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer
*Henry Reynolds, English poet, schoolmaster and literary critic
*Juan de Aguilar Villaquirán, Spanish writer and translator
Probable birth year – Henry Chettle, English dramatist and pamphleteer

March 5 – Friedrich Staphylus, German theologian
March 27 - Lütfi Pasha, Albanian-born Ottoman statesman, juridical scholar and poet of slave origin
April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist and travel writer
April 1 – Christoph Froschauer, Swiss printer
April 9 – Georg Hartmann, German humanist engineer, author and printer
May 2 – Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist and patron of the arts
May 27 – John Calvin, French-born theologian
August 11 – Edward Ferrers, credited as an English dramatist
September 26 – Theodor Bibliander, German theologian and publisher
*Argula von Grumbach, German Protestant reformer