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1565


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

Contents
Events of 1565
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
Deaths

Events of 1565


January - June



March 1 - The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.

April 27 - Cebu City (originally named San Miguel) is established by Miguel López de Legaspi becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

May 18 - The Ottoman troops landed on the island of Malta. The Great Siege of Malta began.

June 17 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
July - December


July 29 - Mary Stuart, widowed, marries Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany.

August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.

September 4 - 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 8 - The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish Siege of Malta (siege 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 (died 1599)

May 15 - Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (died 1621)

August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)

September 28 - Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)

November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)

★ ''date unknown''

★ 8Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died 1635)


Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)


Edward Blount, English printer


Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)


Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)


John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died 1618)


George Kirbye, English composer (died 1634)


Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)


Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)


Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died 1614)


John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)


Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony


Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)


Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died 1606)
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Deaths



January 19 - Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (born 1512)

March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)

May 28 - Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (born 1515)

June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born 1512)

June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)

★ August - Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born 1500)

September 20 - Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)

October 5 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (born 1522)

October 12 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born 1520)

October 14 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born 1521)

October 22 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)

December 9 - Pope Pius IV (born 1499)

December 13 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born 1516)

★ ''date unknown''


Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I of England


Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (born 1483)


William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)


Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te


Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (born c1510)


Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow


Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)
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