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

Events of 1562

January - June

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 - December

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.

Undated

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

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

Gresham's School is granted a Royal Charter.

Births

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 - Kato 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)

Deaths

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

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