1562

1562

Year 1562 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1562

January 6 - Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
January 17 - Huguenots are 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 Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, land in Newhaven (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: Huguenot forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise, battle to a draw. The official leaders of both armies (Condé and Montmorency) are captured in the battle.

The earliest English slave-trading expedition (under John Hawkins) goes between Guinea and the West Indies.
French Huguenots establish a colony of Charlesfort on Parris Island, off the coast of South Carolina.
Gresham's School is granted a Royal Charter.
Akbar the great conquers Malwa and defeats Baz Bahadur.

January 12 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
January 13 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (d. 1601)
January 20 - Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (d. 1621)
April/May - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (d. 1621)
May 6 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
August 17 - (baptised) - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (d. 1612)
October 4 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
October 19 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
date unknown
- Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (d. 1604)
- John Bull, English composer (d. 1628)
- Henry Constable, English poet (d. 1613)
- Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (d. 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and prelate (d. 1633)
- George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (d. 1636)
- Juan de Jáuregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (d. 1582)
- Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1600)
- Richard Neile, English churchman (d. 1640)
- Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (d. 1607)
- Henry Spelman, English antiquary (d. 1641)
- Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1614)
- Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (d. 1638)
- Xu Guangqi, Chinese agronomist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1633)

Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen by Jan van Scorel (c.1535) Panel, Weiss Gallery, London

January - Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1531)
January 9 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
January 25 - Charles Wriothesley, officer of arms (b. 1508)
May 14 - Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525)
October 9 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b. 1523)
October - George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (b. 1514)
November 12 - Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (b. 1500)
November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
December 6 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (b. 1495)
December 7 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (b. c. 1490)
December 17 - Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)
date unknown
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519)
- Lutfi Pasa, poet and juridical scholar of slave origin