Information about 1562
| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1559 1560 1561 - 1562 - 1563 1564 1565 |
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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 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
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. An indecisive battle between Huguenots forces under Condé and Coligny, and Catholic forces under Anne de Montmorency and Guise. The official leaders of both armies (Condé and Montmorency) are captured in the battle.
Undated
- Earliest English slave-trading expedition under John Hawkins. The expedition goes between Guinea and the West Indies.
- French Huguenots establish a colony of Charlesfort on Parris Island of the coast of South Carolina.
- Gresham's School granted a Royal Charter.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1562 MDLXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2315 |
| Armenian calendar | 1011 ԹՎ ՌԺԱ |
| Bah' calendar | -282 – -281 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2106 |
| Chinese calendar | 4198/4258-7-23 (辛酉年七月廿三日) — to — 4199/4259-7-3(壬戌年七月初三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1278 – 1279 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1554 – 1555 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5322 – 5323 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1617 – 1618 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1484 – 1485 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4663 – 4664 |
| Holocene calendar | 11562 |
| Iranian calendar | 940 – 941 |
| Islamic calendar | 969 – 970 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 0 (永禄0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2222 (皇紀2222年) |
| Julian calendar | 1607 |
| Korean calendar | 3895 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2105 |
- January 12 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (died 1630)
- January 13 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (died 1601)
- January 20 - Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer (died 1621)
- April/May - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (died 1621)
- May 6 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (died 1629)
- July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai (died 1611)
- August 17 - (baptised) - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (died 1612)
- October 4 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (died 1647)
- October 19 - George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633)
- November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist (died 1635)
- date unknown
- Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (died 1604)
- John Bull, English composer (died 1628)
- Henry Constable, English poet (died 1613)
- Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (died 1619)
- Francis Godwin, English writer and prelate (died 1633)
- George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly (died 1636)
- Juan de Jáuregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (died 1582)
- Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyo (died 1600)
- Richard Neile, English churchman (died 1640)
- Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (died 1607)
- Henry Spelman, English antiquary (died 1641)
- Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1614)
- Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter (died 1638)
- Xu Guangqi, Chinese agronomist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1633)
Deaths
- January - Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia (born 1531)
- January 9 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1514)
- January 25 - Charles Wriothesley, officer of arms (born 1508)
- May 14 - Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (born 1525)
- October 9 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist (born 1523)
- October - George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (born 1514)
- November 12 - Pietro Martire Vermigli, Italian theologian (born 1500)
- November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (born 1518)
- December 6 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (born 1495)
- December 7 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (born c1490)
- December 17 - Eleonora di Toledo, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (born 1522)
- date unknown
- Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (born 1480)
- Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian (born 1519)
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- 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.
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- Ethiopia - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (1559-1563)
- Kongo - Bernardo I, Manikongo (1561 - 1566)
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- Songhai Empire - Askia Daoud, Askia of the Songhai Empire (1549-1582)
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- 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
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Seán Ó Néill (c. 1530 - June 2, 1567; known in English as Shane O'Neill, also known as Shane the Proud) was an Irish chief of the O'Neill clan of Ulster in the mid 16th century.
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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, France (in name only), and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess
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