1562

Events of 1562

January 6 - Earl of Tyrone ends his first rebellion by surrendering to Queen Elizabeth I of England
January 17 - Huguenots were 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

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. An indecisive battle between Huguenots forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. The official leaders of both armies (Condé and Montmorency) are captured in the battle.

Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. The expedition goes between Guinea and the West Indies.

French Huguenots establish a colony of Charlesfort on Parris Island of the coast of South Carolina.

January 12 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (died 1630)
January 13 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)
January 20 - Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (died 1621)
April/May - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (died 1621)
May 6 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (died 1629)
July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (died 1611)
August 17 - (baptised) - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (died 1612)
October 4 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647)
October 19 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633)
November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
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Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (born 1480).
Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (born 1519).
Lutfi Pasa, poet and juridical scholar of slave origin. He wrote a general code of laws.