1562

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1559 1560 1561 – 1562 – 1563 1564 1565

1562 Media

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  December 19: Battle of Dreux

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  Xu Guangqi

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  Retrato anónimo del célebre dramaturgo español Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562-1635). Este lienzo procede de las colecciones del pintor Valentín Carderera, de quién pasó al general Romualdo Nogués, aunque entre ambos o antes de qu

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  Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen by Jan van Scorel Panel, Weiss Gallery, London

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1562 (MDLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Events

• May 1 – Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida.
• September 22 – Maximilian becomes King of Bohemia.
• October – John Hawkins starts the English slave trade. He ships slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
• November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
• The Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa.

Births

• January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
• January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
• May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor
• July 25 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai
• November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
• Isabella Andreini, Italian actress
• John Bull, English composer
• Henry Constable, English poet
• Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman
• Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter

Deaths

• January – Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia
• January 9 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
• October 9 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
• October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
• November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France
• December 6 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter
• December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
• Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist
• Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian