1565

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Years: 1562 1563 1564 - 1565 - 1566 1567 1568

Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner
• March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded
• April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
• 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).

• Miguel López de Legaspi founds San Miguel, the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines
• Russia, beginning of the Opritchtina

Births

• April 2 - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1599)
• August 16 - Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died 1637)
• November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
• Riza 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
• Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died 1635)
• Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died 1608)
• Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died 1606)

Deaths

• March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born 1500)
• June 12 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born 1512)
• June 17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born 1536)
• 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)
• Giacomo Aconzio, Italian writer (born 1492)
• Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German protestant reformer (born 1483)
• Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born 1500)
• William Farel, French evangelist (born 1489)
• James Lainez, Jesuits theologian (born [[1512]
• Yadegar Moxammad, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
• Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill, Polish magnate (born 1515)
• Mikolaj VII Radziwill, Great Chamberlain of Lithuania (born 1546)
• Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)
• Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer
• Pawel Tarlo, canon of Krakow
• Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born 1498)