1562

Years: 1559 1560 1561 - 1562 - 1563 1564 1565
Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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 Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and 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 Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. Notable is that the official leaders of both armies - Condé 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
Bartholomäus 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