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 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1562 (MDLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1562

January 6 – Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
January 17 – Huguenots are 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.

July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
September 20 – English forces under Ambrose Dudley, 3rd 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: Huguenot forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise, battle to a draw. The official leaders of both armies (Condé and Montmorency) are captured in the battle.

The earliest English slave-trading expedition (under John Hawkins) goes between Guinea and the West Indies. As a result, the Spanish ban English ships from trading at their new world ports.
French Huguenots establish a colony of Charlesfort on Parris Island, off the coast of South Carolina.
Gresham's School is granted a Royal Charter.
Akbar the Great conquers Malwa and defeats Baz Bahadur.

January 12 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630)
January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (d. 1601)
January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (d. 1621)
April/May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (d. 1621)
May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
July 25 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
August 17 – (baptised) – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (d. 1612)
October 4 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
October 19 – George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (d. 1635)
date unknown
- Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (d. 1604)
- John Bull, English composer (d. 1628)
- Henry Constable, English poet (d. 1613)
- Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (d. 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and prelate (d. 1633)
- George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (d. 1636)
- Juan de Jáuregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (d. 1582)
- Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1600)
- Richard Neile, English churchman (d. 1640)
- Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (d. 1607)
- Henry Spelman, English antiquary (d. 1641)
- Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1614)
- Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (d. 1638)
- Xu Guangqi, Chinese agronomist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1633)

Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen by Jan van Scorel (c.1535) Panel, Weiss Gallery, London

January – Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia (b. 1531)
January 9 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
January 25 – Charles Wriothesley, officer of arms (b. 1508)
May 14 – Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525)
October 9 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (b. 1523)
October – George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (b. 1514)
November 12 – Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (b. 1500)
November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518)
December 6 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (b. 1495)
December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (b. c. 1490)
December 17 – Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522)
date unknown
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (b. 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (b. 1519)
- Lutfi Pasa, poet and juridical scholar of slave origin