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 topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events of 1565

January 26 – The Battle of Talikota, a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates. The last Hindu kingdom in South India ended.

February 13 – Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi lands with his troops on the shores of Cebu Island in the Philippine archipelago.
March 1 – The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is founded.
April 27 – Cebu City (originally named San Miguel) is established by López de Legazpi, becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
May 18 – Ottoman troops land on the island of Malta, beginning The Great Siege of Malta.
June 17 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

July 29 – Mary, Queen of Scots, widowed, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
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 Turkish Siege of Malta (started on May 18).

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)
November 10 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
date unknown
- Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (d. 1635)
- Edward Blount, English printer
- Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1647)
- John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (d. 1618)
- Francis Meres, English churchman and author (d. 1647)
- Pedro Fernández de Quirós, 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)

January 19 – Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (b. 1512)
March 17 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
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)
September 13 – William Farel, French evangelist (b. 1489)
September 20 – Cypriano 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)
December 9 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
December 13 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (b. 1516)
date unknown
- Kat Ashley, governess of Elizabeth I of England
- Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
- Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (b. c. 1510)
- Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow