1562

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1559 1560 1561 – 1562 – 1563 1564 1565

1562 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1562 MDLXII
Ab urbe condita	2315
Armenian calendar	1011 ԹՎ ՌԺԱ
Assyrian calendar	6312
Balinese saka calendar	1483–1484
Bengali calendar	969
Berber calendar	2512
English Regnal year	4 Eliz. 1 – 5 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2106
Burmese calendar	924
Byzantine calendar	7070–7071
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4258 or 4198     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4259 or 4199
Coptic calendar	1278–1279
Discordian calendar	2728
Ethiopian calendar	1554–1555
Hebrew calendar	5322–5323
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1618–1619
- Shaka Samvat	1483–1484
- Kali Yuga	4662–4663
Holocene calendar	11562
Igbo calendar	562–563
Iranian calendar	940–941
Islamic calendar	969–970
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 5 (永禄５年)
Javanese calendar	1481–1482
Julian calendar	1562 MDLXII
Korean calendar	3895
Minguo calendar	350 before ROC 民前350年
Nanakshahi calendar	94
Thai solar calendar	2104–2105
Tibetan calendar	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1688 or 1307 or 535     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1689 or 1308 or 536

1562 (MDLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1562nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 562nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1560s decade. As of the start of 1562, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• May 1 – Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida.
• September 22 – Maximilian becomes King of Bohemia.
• October – John Hawkins starts the English slave trade. He ships slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
• November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
• The Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa.

Births

• January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
• January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
• May 6 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor
• July 25 – Katō Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai
• November 25 – Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
• Isabella Andreini, Italian actress
• John Bull, English composer
• Henry Constable, English poet
• Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman
• Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter

Deaths

• January – Ilie II Rareş, Prince of Moldavia
• January 9 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
• October 9 – Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
• October 13 – Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
• November 17 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France
• December 6 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter
• December 7 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
• Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist
• Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian