Events from the year 1561 in Ireland.

Incumbent

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Events

June 8 Events Pre-1600 * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...

– the

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, proclaims Shane O'Neill a traitor and begins a campaign against him which continues until

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July 18 Events Pre-1600 * 477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. * 387 BC – Roman- Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, l ...

– Battle of the Red Sagums: Shane O'Neill destroys much of Sussex's withdrawing army. *c. July – English troops garrison

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. *September – Sussex makes an unsuccessful expedition to

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introduces a higher standard of silver coinage for Ireland.

Births

* Risdeard Ó Conchubhair,

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1625 Events January–March * January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet. * February 3 – ...

) * Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, clan chief (d.

1618 Events January–June * February 26 – Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman sultan (until 1622). * March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (after some initial calculations, he so ...

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Deaths

*Sir John Alan, lawyer and statesman (b. c.1500) *

Naisse mac Cithruadh Naisse mac Cithruadh, Irish musician, died 1561. Biography The Annals of Loch Ce, ''sub anno'' 1561, contain a reference to Naisse and his wife, and their deaths on Lough Gill: ''Naisse, the son of Cithruadh, the most eminent musician that was i ...

, musician (drowned on Lough Gill)

References

1560s in Ireland Years of the 16th century in Ireland {{Year in Europe, 1561