Year in Japan

1565 in Japanese History

5 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Konoe Nobutada 近衛信尹 · Painter — Japanese calligrapher (1565-1614)
Ikeda Terumasa 池田輝政 · Samurai — daimyo
Mototsugu Gotō 後藤基次 · Samurai — Japanese warrior
Chōsokabe Nobuchika 長宗我部信親 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
Matsudaira Ienobu 松平家信 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1565 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1565 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 8 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1565年 (1565ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 16th century for its neighbours.