1560

1560 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1560; MDLX
Ab urbe condita	2313
Armenian calendar	1009; ԹՎ ՌԹ
Assyrian calendar	6310
Balinese saka calendar	1481–1482
Bengali calendar	967
Berber calendar	2510
English Regnal year	2 Eliz. 1 – 3 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2104
Burmese calendar	922
Byzantine calendar	7068–7069
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat); 4256 or 4196; — to —; 庚申年 (Metal Monkey); 4257 or 4197
Coptic calendar	1276–1277
Discordian calendar	2726
Ethiopian calendar	1552–1553
Hebrew calendar	5320–5321
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1616–1617
- Shaka Samvat	1481–1482
- Kali Yuga	4660–4661
Holocene calendar	11560
Igbo calendar	560–561
Iranian calendar	938–939
Islamic calendar	967–968
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 3; (永禄３年)
Javanese calendar	1479–1480
Julian calendar	1560; MDLX
Korean calendar	3893
Minguo calendar	352 before ROC; 民前352年
Nanakshahi calendar	92
Thai solar calendar	2102–2103
Tibetan calendar	阴土羊年; (female Earth-Goat); 1686 or 1305 or 533; — to —; 阳金猴年; (male Iron-Monkey); 1687 or 1306 or 534

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years:	1557 1558 1559 – 1560 – 1561 1562 1563

1560 (MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1560th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 560th year of the 2nd millennium, the 60th year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1560s decade. As of the start of 1560, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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Anton Praetorius, fighter against torture and chase of witches (d. 1613)
August 7 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer
November 28 – Baltasar of Marradas, Spanish noblemanbleman, knight of the Knights of Malta, imperial field marshal, governor in Bohemia (d. 1638)