Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  - 1560s -  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1562 1563 1564 - 1565 - 1566 1567 1568

1565 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1565 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1565

January - June

March 1: Rio de Janeiro.

• 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, beginning The Great Siege of Malta.
• June 17 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

July - December

• July 29 - Queen Mary I of Scotland, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
• August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), is established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
• September 4 - The 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 (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 (d. 1599)
• May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (d. 1621)
• August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1637)
• September 28 - Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (d. 1635)
• November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
• date unknown
  • Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (d. 1635)
  • Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628)
  • Edward Blount, English printer
  • Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1647)
  • Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)
  • John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (d. 1618)
  • George Kirbye, English composer (d. 1634)
  • Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646)
  • Francis Meres, English churchman and author (d. 1647)
  • Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (d. 1614)
  • John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews (d. 1639)
  • Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
  • Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (d. 1608)
  • Robert Wintour, English conspirator (d. 1606)

See also Category: 1565 births.

Deaths

• January 19 - Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (b. 1512)
• March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
• May 28 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1515)
• June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
• June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
• August - Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (b. 1500)
• September 20 - Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (b. 1515)
• October 5 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
• October 12 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
• October 14 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
• October 22 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
• December 9 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
• December 13 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
• date unknown
  • Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I of England
  • Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (b. 1483)
  • William Farel, French evangelist (b. 1489)
  • Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
  • Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (b. c. 1510)
  • Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow
  • Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (b. 1498)

See also Category: 1565 deaths.