1560
1560 in topic: |
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Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1560 (MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1560
Undated
- The first tulip bulb is brought from Turkey to the Netherlands.
- Solihull School is founded in Solihull, West Midlands.
- Jean Nicot introduces tobacco in the form of snuff to the French court.
- The oldest surviving violin (dated inside), known as the Charles IX, is made in Cremona, in northern Italy.
- The great age of piracy in the Caribbean starts around this time.
- Bairam Khan loses power in the Mughal Empire.
- Mongols invade and occupy Qinghai.
- A tree is uprooted by a storm in England, and a black substance quickly recognized as being easy to write with is found. We know it today as graphite.
Ongoing
Births
- January 17 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
- June 25 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- August 7 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
- August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
- September 11 – Krystyna Radziwiłł, Polish noblewoman (d. 1580)
- October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian (d. 1609)
- November 3 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- December 3 – Jan Gruter, Dutch critic and scholar (d. 1627)
- date unknown
- Felice Anerio, Italian composer (died 1614)
- James Crichton, Scottish scholar (d. 1582)
- Lieven de Key, Dutch architect (d. 1627)
- Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese samurai (d. 1600)
- Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1579)
- Anton Praetorius, German pastor (d. 1613)
- probable
- Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (d. 1621)
- Hector MacLean of Dowart, Scottish Lord of the Clan MacLean (d. 1630)
Deaths
- January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. c. 1522)
- January 8 – Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant evangelical reformer (b. 1499)
- February 7 – Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Florentine sculptor (b. 1493)
- February 16 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. c. 1493)
- April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
- June 11 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland and regent (b. 1515)
- June 12 – Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
- June 12 – Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
- August 4 – Maeda Toshimasa, Japanese samurai (b. ?)
- August 7 – Anastasia of Russia, wife Tsar Ivan the Terrible
- September 8 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1536)
- September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
- September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian (b. 1525)
- November 25 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval commander (b. 1466)
- December 5 – King Francis II of France (b. 1544)
- December – John Sheppard, English composer and organist (b. 1515)