1565

This article is about the year 1565.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1530s  1540s  1550s  – 1560s –  1570s  1580s  1590s
Years:	1562 1563 1564 – 1565 – 1566 1567 1568

1565 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1565 MDLXV
Ab urbe condita	2318
Armenian calendar	1014 ԹՎ ՌԺԴ
Assyrian calendar	6315
Bengali calendar	972
Berber calendar	2515
English Regnal year	7 Eliz. 1 – 8 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2109
Burmese calendar	927
Byzantine calendar	7073–7074
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4261 or 4201     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4262 or 4202
Coptic calendar	1281–1282
Discordian calendar	2731
Ethiopian calendar	1557–1558
Hebrew calendar	5325–5326
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1621–1622
- Shaka Samvat	1487–1488
- Kali Yuga	4666–4667
Holocene calendar	11565
Igbo calendar	565–566
Iranian calendar	943–944
Islamic calendar	972–973
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 8 (永禄８年)
Julian calendar	1565 MDLXV
Korean calendar	3898
Minguo calendar	347 before ROC 民前347年
Thai solar calendar	2107–2108

March 1: Founding of Rio de Janeiro.

Year 1565 (MDLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January – In Russia, it is the beginning of the Oprichnina under Ivan the Terrible.
• January 26 – The Battle of Talikota, a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, ends the last Hindu kingdom in South India.
• February 13 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi lands with his troops on the shores of Cebu Island in the Philippines.
• March 1 – The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is founded as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro by the Portuguese.
• April 27 – Cebu City is established as San Miguel by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
• May 18 – Ottoman troops land on the island of Malta, beginning the Siege of Malta.
• June 17 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

July–December

• July 29 – Mary, Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
• August 6 – Sark granted as a Fief by Elizabeth I to Hellier de Carteret Seigneur of Saint Ouen
• August 28 – St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), is established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
• September 4 – The 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 11 – The Knights of Malta lift the Siege of Malta after four months.
• October – The first Martello tower, the Tour de Mortella, designed by Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino (el Fratin), is completed as part of the Genovese defence system at Mortella (Myrtle) Point in Upper Corsica.
• October 18 – Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture the Portuguese trading carrack in the Battle of Fukuda Bay, the first recorded naval battle between Japan and the West.

Date unknown

• The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner; it is becoming common in England.
• John Beddoes School is founded at Presteigne in Wales.
• Huntingdon Grammar School is established.

Births

• April 2 – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1599)
• May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (d. 1621)
• August 16 – Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1637)
• September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (d. 1635)
• October 6 – Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)
• November 10
  • Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English nobleman and politician (d. 1601)
  • Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
• date unknown
  • Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (d. 1635)
  • Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1647)
  • John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (d. 1618)
  • Francis Meres, English churchman and author (d. 1647)
  • Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (d. 1614)
  • John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews (d. 1639)
  • Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
  • Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (d. 1608)
  • Robert Wintour, English conspirator (d. 1606)
• probable
  • Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628)
  • George Kirbye, English composer (d. 1634)
  • Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646)

Deaths

• January 19 – Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (b. 1512)
• March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
• c. late March? – Lope de Rueda, Spanish dramatist (b. c. 1510)
• May 14 – Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (b. 1483)
• May 28 – Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1515)
• June 12 – Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
• June 17 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
• August – Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (b. 1500)
• June 25 – Herluf Trolle, Danish Admiral of Fleet and co-founder of Herlufsholm School (b. 1516)
• September 13 – William Farel, French evangelist (b. 1489)
• September 20 – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (b. 1515)
• October 4 – Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (b. 1498)
• October 5 – Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (b. 1522)
• October 12 – Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)
• October 14 – Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)
• October 22 – Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
• November 25 – Hu Zongxian, Chinese general (b. 1512)
• December 9 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
• December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter of the Renaissance period (b. 1516)
  • Kat Ashley, governess of Elizabeth I of England
  • Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanate
  • Paweł Tarło, canon of Kraków