1562

Year 1562 (MDLXII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1562 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1562
MDLXII
Ab urbe condita2315
Armenian calendar1011
ԹՎ ՌԺԱ
Assyrian calendar6312
Balinese saka calendar1483–1484
Bengali calendar969
Berber calendar2512
English Regnal year4 Eliz. 1  5 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2106
Burmese calendar924
Byzantine calendar7070–7071
Chinese calendar辛酉(Metal Rooster)
4258 or 4198
     to 
壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4259 or 4199
Coptic calendar1278–1279
Discordian calendar2728
Ethiopian calendar1554–1555
Hebrew calendar5322–5323
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1618–1619
 - Shaka Samvat1483–1484
 - Kali Yuga4662–4663
Holocene calendar11562
Igbo calendar562–563
Iranian calendar940–941
Islamic calendar969–970
Japanese calendarEiroku 5
(永禄5年)
Javanese calendar1481–1482
Julian calendar1562
MDLXII
Korean calendar3895
Minguo calendar350 before ROC
民前350年
Nanakshahi calendar94
Thai solar calendar2104–2105
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

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • The Pünte at Wiltshausen, a small, hand-operated ferry, now a historic monument, is first recorded.
  • The Portuguese army is defeated at Mulleriyawa, Sri Lanka, at the hand of the Sitawaka army commanded by Prince Tikiri Bandara (King Rajasinghe), leaving 1600 dead. This is considered the worst defeat the Portuguese had at that time.

Births

Deaths

Cornelis Aerentsz van der Dussen by Jan van Scorel Panel, Weiss Gallery, London

References

  1. Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
  2. "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on September 17, 2007. Retrieved November 14, 2007.
  3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 223–226. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  4. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 153–156. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. Evers, Vernd (2003). Architectural Theory: from the Renaissance to the present. Taschen. p. 845. ISBN 978-3-8228-1699-8.
  6. Vignola. Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture, translated with an introduction by Branko Mitrovic. New York: Acanthus Press, 1999). p. 17. ISBN 0-926494-16-3.
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