Year in Japan

1566 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Eiroku 永禄 (year 9 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Torii Tadamasa 鳥居忠政 · Samurai — First daimyō of Iwakidaira Domain in Mutsu province
Sanada Nobuyuki 真田信之 · Samurai — daimyo
Onodera Yoshimichi 小野寺義道 · Samurai — daimyo (1566-1646)

Reading the year 1566 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1566 corresponds to Eiroku 永禄 (year 9 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 1566年 (1566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.