February 10, 1567 – An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.

May 15, 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.

July 24, 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.

July 25, 1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.

July 29, 1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

September 29, 1567 – At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.

February 12, 1567 – Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620)

May 15, 1567 – (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)

August 21, 1567 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)

September 5, 1567 – Date Masamune, Japanese Samurai and Daimyo (d. 1636)

October 10, 1567 – Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)

November 1, 1567 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)

November 14, 1567 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)

November 21, 1567 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)