What is 1562?
{{Year nav|1562}} {{Year in various calendars|1562}} '''1562''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXII]]) was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Monday]] in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. == Events == * May 1 &ndash; [[Jean Ribault]], French navigator, lands in [[Florida]]. * September 22 &ndash; [[Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian]] becomes King of [[Bohemia]]. * October &ndash; [[John Hawkins]] starts the [[Kingdom of England|English]] [[slave trade]]. He ships slaves from [[Sierra Leone]] to [[Hispaniola]] in the [[Caribbean]]. * November 20 &ndash; Maximilian of Bohemia is elected [[King of the Romans]]. * The [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Akbar]] conquers [[Malwa]]. == Births == * January 13 &ndash; [[Mark Alexander Boyd]], Scottish poet and soldier of fortune * January 20 &ndash; [[Ottavio Rinuccini]], Italian composer * [[Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck]], Dutch composer * May 6 &ndash; [[Pietro Bernini]], Italian sculptor * July 25 &ndash; [[Katō Kiyomasa]], Japanese samurai * November 25 &ndash; [[Lope de Vega]], Spanish poet and dramatist * [[Isabella Andreini]], Italian actress * [[John Bull (composer)|John Bull]], English composer * [[Henry Constable]], English poet * [[Maeda Toshinaga]], Japanese nobleman * [[Cornelis van Haarlem]], Dutch painter == Deaths == * January &ndash; [[Ilie II Rareş]], Prince of Moldavia * January 9 &ndash; [[Amago Haruhisa]], Japanese samurai and warlord * October 9 &ndash; [[Gabriele Falloppio]], Italian anatomist * October 13 &ndash; [[Claudin de Sermisy]], French composer * November 17 &ndash; [[Antoine de Bourbon]], father of [[Henry IV of France]] * December 6 &ndash; [[Jan van Scorel]], Dutch painter * December 7 &ndash; [[Adrian Willaert]], Flemish composer * [[Matteo Bandello]], Italian novelist * [[Nicholas Grimald]], English poet and theologian [[Category:1562| ]]