1562

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1562 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1562
MDLXII
Ab urbe condita2315
Armenian calendar1011
ԹՎ ՌԺԱ
Assyrian calendar6312
Balinese saka calendar1483–1484
Bengali calendar969
Berber calendar2512
English Regnal year4 Eliz. 1 – 5 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2106
Burmese calendar924
Byzantine calendar7070–7071
Chinese calendar辛酉年 (Metal Rooster)
4258 or 4198
    — to —
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4259 or 4199
Coptic calendar1278–1279
Discordian calendar2728
Ethiopian calendar1554–1555
Hebrew calendar5322–5323
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1618–1619
 - Shaka Samvat1483–1484
 - Kali Yuga4662–4663
Holocene calendar11562
Igbo calendar562–563
Iranian calendar940–941
Islamic calendar969–970
Japanese calendarEiroku 5
(永禄５年)
Javanese calendar1481–1482
Julian calendar1562
MDLXII
Korean calendar3895
Minguo calendar350 before ROC
民前350年
Nanakshahi calendar94
Thai solar calendar2104–2105
Tibetan calendar阴金鸡年
(female Iron-Rooster)
1688 or 1307 or 535
    — to —
阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1689 or 1308 or 536
December 19: Battle of Dreux

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

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 6 – Shane O'Neill of Tír Eoghain pleads his cause at the Palace of Whitehall in London, before Queen Elizabeth I of England, who recognises his status. He returns to Ireland on May 26, and resumes his rebellious activities by November.[1]
  • January 17 – Huguenots are recognized under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
  • January 18
    • The Council of Trent reconvenes, after a gap of 10 years.
    • Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc is performed for the first time, before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy, and the first English language play to employ blank verse.[2]
  • March 1 – Over 80 (?) 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 Orléans, Rouen, and other cities throughout France.[3]
  • March – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson has an audience with Ivan the Terrible in Moscow, before continuing his second expedition through the Grand Duchy of Moscow to Qazvin, capital of the Safavid Dynasty in Persia.
  • May 1 – Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida, and later establishes a Huguenot colony at Charlesfort on Parris Island, South Carolina.

July–December[]

  • July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.
  • August – The Wiesensteig witch trial begins.
  • September 20 – The Treaty of Hampton Court, between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Huguenot leader Louis, Prince of Condé, is signed.[4]
  • September 22 – Maximilian, son of the Emperor Ferdinand I, succeeds as king of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
  • October – John Hawkins initiates the English trans-Atlantic slave trade, shipping slaves from Sierra Leone, on the Guinea Coast, to Hispaniola in the Caribbean.[5] As a result, the Spanish prohibit English ships from trading at their new world ports.
  • October 4 – English forces under Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, land at Le Havre to aid the Huguenots.[4]
  • October 19 – La Herradura naval disaster: Twenty-five ships sink in a storm, and some 5,000 people are killed.
  • October 26 – Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded.
  • November 5 – Battle of Corrichie in Scotland: The rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray.[6]
  • November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
  • December 19 – Battle of Dreux: Huguenot and Catholic forces fight a bloody battle, narrowly won by the Catholic side. The official leaders of both armies are captured in the battle.[7]

Date unknown[]

  • Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa, and its last Sultan, Baz Bahadur, flees.
  • The Church of England approves the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, defining its doctrinal stance.[5]
  • Dudley Grammar School is established, and Gresham's School is granted a royal charter, in England.
  • Fausto Sozzini publishes Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput, originating Socinianism.
  • Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola publishes Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (Rules of the Five Orders of Architecture);[8] it will become in succeeding centuries the most published book in architectural history.[9]
  • The Pünte at Wiltshausen, a small, hand-operated ferry, now a historic monument, is first recorded.
  • The Portuguese army is defeated at the Battle of Mulleriyawa, Sri Lanka, at the hand of the Sitawaka army commanded by Prince Tikiri Bandara (King Rajasinghe), leaving 1600 dead. This is considered the worst defeat the Portuguese had at that time.

Births[]

Xu Guangqi
Lope de Vega

Deaths[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  2. ^ "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. Retrieved November 14, 2007.
  3. ^ John Ardagh (1980). The Book of France. Chartwell Books. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-89009-366-5.
  4. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 223–226. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  6. ^ John Leonard Roberts (1999). Feuds, Forays, and Rebellions: History of the Highland Clans, 1475-1625. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 97–8. ISBN 978-0-7486-6244-9.
  7. ^ Great Britain. Public Record Office (1966). Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth: Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office. Kraus Reprint. p. 569.
  8. ^ Evers, Vernd (2003). Architectural Theory: from the Renaissance to the present. Taschen. p. 845. ISBN 978-3-8228-1699-8.
  9. ^ Vignola. Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture, translated with an introduction by Branko Mitrovic. New York: Acanthus Press, 1999). p. 17. ISBN 0-926494-16-3.
  10. ^ "Charles Emmanuel I | duke of Savoy | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  11. ^ David Ewen (1963). Encyclopedia of the Opera. Hill and Wang. p. 432.
  12. ^ Lope de Vega (January 21, 1999). Three Major Plays. OUP Oxford. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-160536-9.
  13. ^ Medical Journal. NOLIT Publishing House. 1963. p. 55.
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