title: 1556 in literature
text: # 1556 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1556.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Unknown dates
     * The first printing press in India is introduced by Jesuits at Saint Paul's College, Goa.
     * The first written evidence of Yakshagana dance-drama is found on an inscription at the Lakshminarayana Temple, Hosaholalu in India.
     * Augustus, Elector of Saxony, establishes a royal state library in Dresden, predecessor of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden.
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Georg Bauer – De re metallica
  * John Ponet – A Short Treasure of Politic Power
  
  ### Poetry
  
  * Pierre de Ronsard – Les Hymnes
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 7 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and philosopher (died 1621)
  * April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville, French novelist and poet (died 1626)
  * July 25 (baptised) – George Peele, English dramatist and poet (died 1596)
  * August 10 – Philipp Nicolai, German poet and composer (died 1608)
  * November 15 – Jacques Davy Duperron, French poet, cardinal and politician (died 1618)
  * November 25 (baptised) – John Heminges, English actor and editor of the First Folio (died 1630)
  * Unknown date – John Paul Nazarius, Italian theologian (died 1645)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 26 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and teacher (born 1490)
  * May 7 – Hieronymus Andreae, German printer and publisher (date of birth unknown)
  * July 31 – Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish theologian, founder of the Jesuits (born 1491)
  * October 21 – Pietro Aretino, Italian satirist (born 1492)
  * October 31 – Johannes Sleidanus, Luxembourgeois historian (born 1506)
  * November 14 – Giovanni della Casa, Florentine poet (born 1503)
  * December 23 – Nicholas Udall, English dramatist (born 1504)
  * Unknown dates
     * Fuzûlî, Ottoman poet and philosopher (born c.1483)
     * Oddur Gottskálksson, Icelandic translator (born 1514/1515)
  