1560

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1557 1558 1559 – 1560 – 1561 1562 1563

Events

• July 6 – Treaty of Edinburgh

Births

• Anton Praetorius, fighter against torture and chase of witches (d. 1613)
• August 7– Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer
• November 28– Baltasar of Marradas, Spanish noblemanbleman, knight of the Knights of Malta, imperial field marshal, governor in Bohemia (d. 1638)

Deaths

• April 19– Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer
• September 29– King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)