1562
Events
Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins . The expedition goes between Guinea and the West Indies
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 John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, land in 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. Notable is that the official leaders of both armies - Condé and Montmorency - were captured in the battle.
Births
January 12 - Carlo Emanuele I , Duke of Savoy
July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa , Japanese daimyo and samurai
August 17 (baptised) - Hans Leo Hassler , German composer
October 4 - Christian Severin Longberg , Danish astronomer
October 19 - Archbishop George Abbot , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633 )
November 25 - Lope de Vega , Spanish poet and dramatist (d. 1635 )
Isabella Andreini , Italian actress (d. 1604 )
John Bull , English composer
Henry Constable , English poet
Samuel Daniel , English poet and historian
Bartholomäus Gesius , German theologian and composer
Francis Godwin , English writer and prelate
Cornelis van Haarlem , Dutch painter
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Dutch composer
Deaths
January 9 - Amago Haruhisa , Japanese samurai and warlord
May 14 - Lelio Sozini , Italian Protestant theologian
October 9 - Gabriel Fallopius , Italian anatomist
November 12 - Pietro Martire Vermigli , Italian theologian
November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon , father of Henry IV of France (b. 1518 )
December 7 - Adrian Willaert , Flemish composer
Thomas Appleby , English organist and composer of church music
George Cavendish , English courtier and author
Claudin de Sermisy , French composer
Nicholas Grimald , English poet and theologian
Jan van Scorel , Dutch painter
