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 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. An indecisive battle between Huguenots forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. The official leaders of both armies – Condé and Montmorency – are captured in the battle.

• French Huguenots establish a colony of Port Royal on Parris Island at the mouth of St John River

Births

• January 12 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (died 1630)
• January 13 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)
• July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (died 1611)
• August 17 - (baptised) - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (died 1612)
• October 4 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647)
• October 19 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633)
• November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
• Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (died 1604)
• Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (died 1629)
• John Bull, English composer (died 1628)
• Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)
• Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (died 1619)
• Francis Godwin, English writer and prelate (died 1633)
• George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (died 1636)
• Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (died 1582)
• Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyo
• Richard Neile, English churchman (died 1640)
• Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich (died 1607)
• Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (died 1621)
• Henry Spelman, English antiquary (died 1641)
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (died 1621)
• Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1614)

See also Category: 1562 births.

Deaths

• January 9 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1514)
• May 14 - Lelio Sozini, Italian protestant theologian (born 1525)
• October 9 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (born 1523)
• November 12 - Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1500)
• November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (born 1518)
• December 7 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
• Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (born 1480)
• Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (born 1519)
• George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (born 1514)
• Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (born 1495)

See also Category: 1562 deaths.

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