1565
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1565 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1565
January - June
- February 13 - Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi lands with his troops on the shores of Cebu Island in the Philippine archipelago.
- March 1 - The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is founded.
- April 27 - Cebu City (originally named San Miguel) is established by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- May 18 - Ottoman troops land on the island of Malta. The Great Siege of Malta begins.
- June 17 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
July - December
- July 29 - Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany.
- August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
- September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. He later destroys the French colony of Fort Caroline.
- September 8 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles in St. Augustine, Florida.
- September 11 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish Siege of Malta (siege started on May 18).
Undated
- In Russia, it is the beginning of the Opritchtina.
- The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner.
- John Beddoes School is founded.
Births
- April 2 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1599)
- May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (died 1621)
- August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
- September 28 - Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)
- November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
- date unknown
- Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died 1635)
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
- Edward Blount, English printer
- Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)
- Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)
- John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died 1618)
- George Kirbye, English composer (died 1634)
- Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
- Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)
- Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died 1614)
- John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)
- Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
- Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died 1606)
- See also :Category: 1565 births.
Deaths
- January 19 - Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (born 1512)
- March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
- May 28 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (born 1515)
- June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born 1512)
- June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)
- August - Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born 1500)
- September 20 - Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)
- October 5 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (born 1522)
- October 12 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born 1520)
- October 14 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born 1521)
- October 22 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
- December 9 - Pope Pius IV (born 1499)
- December 13 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born 1516)
- date unknown
- Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I of England
- Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (born 1483)
- William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)
- Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
- Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (born c1510)
- Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow
- Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)
- See also :Category: 1565 deaths.
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