1562
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Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s |
Years: | 1559 1560 1561 – 1562 – 1563 1564 1565 |
Gregorian calendar | 1562 MDLXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2315 |
Armenian calendar | 1011 ԹՎ ՌԺԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6312 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1483–1484 |
Bengali calendar | 969 |
Berber calendar | 2512 |
English Regnal year | 4 Eliz. 1 – 5 Eliz. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2106 |
Burmese calendar | 924 |
Byzantine calendar | 7070–7071 |
Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4258 or 4198 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4259 or 4199 |
Coptic calendar | 1278–1279 |
Discordian calendar | 2728 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1554–1555 |
Hebrew calendar | 5322–5323 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1618–1619 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1483–1484 |
- Kali Yuga | 4662–4663 |
Holocene calendar | 11562 |
Igbo calendar | 562–563 |
Iranian calendar | 940–941 |
Islamic calendar | 969–970 |
Japanese calendar | Eiroku 5 (永禄5年) |
Javanese calendar | 1481–1482 |
Julian calendar | 1562 MDLXII |
Korean calendar | 3895 |
Minguo calendar | 350 before ROC 民前350年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 94 |
Thai solar calendar | 2104–2105 |
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 |
1562 (MDLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Events
[change | change source]- May 1 – Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida.
- September 22 – Maximilian becomes King of Bohemia.
- October – John Hawkins starts the English slave trade. He ships slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
- November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
- The Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa.
Births
[change | change source]- January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
- January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
- May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor
- July 25 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai
- November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
- Isabella Andreini, Italian actress
- John Bull, English composer
- Henry Constable, English poet
- Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman
- Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter
Deaths
[change | change source]- January – Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia
- January 9 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
- October 9 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
- October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
- November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France
- December 6 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter
- December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian