1565

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

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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)

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★ Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)

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★ Edward Blount, English printer

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★ Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died 1647)

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★ Marie de Gournay, French writer (died 1645)

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★ John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died 1618)

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★ George Kirbye, English composer (died 1634)

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★ Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)

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★ Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)

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

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★ John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died 1639)

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★ Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony

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★ Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)

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★ 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''

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★ Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I of England

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★ Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (born 1483)

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★ William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)

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★ Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te

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★ Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (born c1510)

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★ Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow

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★ Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)
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