1562
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1559 1560 1561 - 1562 - 1563 1564 1565 |
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Year 1562 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1562
[edit] January - June
- 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.
[edit] July - December
- 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.
[edit] Undated
- 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1562 MDLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2315 |
| Armenian calendar | 1011 ԹՎ ՌԺԱ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -282 – -281 |
| Berber calendar | 2512 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2106 |
| Burmese calendar | 924 |
| Chinese calendar | 4198/4258-11-26 (辛酉年十一月廿六日) — to —
4199/4259-12-6(壬戌年十二月初六日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1278 – 1279 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1554 – 1555 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5322 – 5323 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1617 – 1618 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1484 – 1485 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4663 – 4664 |
| Holocene calendar | 11562 |
| Iranian calendar | 940 – 941 |
| Islamic calendar | 969 – 970 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 5 (永禄5年) |
| Korean calendar | 3895 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2105 |
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- 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
