1565

Years: 1562 1563 1564 - 1565 - 1566 1567 1568
Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Miguel López de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Russia, beginning of the Opritchtina.
The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner.

April 2 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1599)
August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died 1635)
Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
Edward Blount, English printer
Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)
Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)
John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died 1618)
George Kirbye, English composer (died 1634)
Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)
Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died 1614)
John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)
Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)
Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)
Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died 1606)
John Mac Street, Irish captain (died 1640)

March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born 1512)
June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)
October 5 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (born 1522)
October 12 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born 1520)
October 14 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born 1521)
October 22 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
December 9 - Pope Pius IV (born 1499)
December 13 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born 1516)
Giacomo Aconzio, Italian writer (born 1492)
Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German protestant reformer (born 1483)
Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born 1500)
William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)
James Lainez, Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
Yadegar Moxammad, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill, Polish magnate (born 1515)
Mikolaj VII Radziwill, Great Chamberlain of Lithuania (born 1546)
Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)
Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer
Pawel Tarlo, canon of Krakow
Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)

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