1562
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Centuries:
15th century -
16th century -
17th century
Decades: 1510s 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s
Years: 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 - 1562 - 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567
Events
- Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. The expedition goes between Guinea and the West Indies
- January 6 - Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England
- January 17 - Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of Saint-Germain
- March 1 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by the ultra-Catholic Francis, Duke of Guise in Wassy-sur-Blaise marking the start of the First War of Religion in France. Protestant forces led by Gaspard de Coligny quickly seize control of Orleans, Rouen, and other cities throughout France.
- May 1 Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida and later establishes a Huguenot colony at Charlesfort
- May 26 - Earl of Tyrone leads a second rebellion in Ireland
- September 20 - English forces under John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, land in Le Havre to aid the Huguenots.
- September 22 - Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds as King of Bohemia.
- October 26 - Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.
- November 5 - In Scotland, the rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray at Corrichie.
- November 20 - Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
- December 19 - Battle of Dreux. An indecisive battle between Huguenots forces under Cond?and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. Notable is that the official leaders of both armies - Cond?and Montmorency - were captured in the battle.
Births
- January 12 - Carlo Emanuele I, Duke of Savoy
- October 4 - Christian Severin Longberg, Danish astronomer
- October 19 - Archbishop George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury
- November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
- Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian
- Cornelis Van Haarlem, Dutch painter
- Bartholom?s Gesius, German theologian and composer
- John Bull, English composer
- Henry Constable, English poet
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
- Francis Godwin, English writer and prelate
- Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warrior and politician
Deaths
- May 14 - Lelio Sozini, Italian Protestant theologian
- October 9 - Gabriel Fallopius, Italian anatomist
- November 12 - Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian
- November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France
- December 7 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
- Thomas Appleby, English organist and composer of church music
- George Cavendish, English courtier and author
- Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian
- Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter\n