Explore 86 historical events from 1560–1569.
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered th…
Luis de Góngora, Spanish cleric and poet (died 1627)
Maria of the Palatinate, also known as Anna Maria, was a Swedish princess and Duchess of Södermanland by marriage, the first wife of the future King Charles IX of Sweden. She died …
Maria of the Palatinate-Simmern (died 1589)
Jan Amor Tarnowski was a Polish nobleman, knight, military commander, military theoretician, and statesman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. He was Grand Crown Hetman from 152…
Jan Tarnowski, Polish noble and statesman (born 1488)
In architecture, a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. Steeples are very common on Christian churches an…
The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning, and is never reb
Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built in 1087 and from 125…
The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London was destroyed by fire
The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a Russian Orthodox church on Red Square in the historic centre of Moscow. It is one of the most p…
Saint Basil's Cathedral (pictured), located in Red Square, Moscow, was consecrated.
The Ottoman Navy or the Imperial Navy, also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was the naval warfare arm of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Ottomans first reached the sea…
The Ottoman naval forces inflict a defeat on a Spanish fleet in the battle of Djerba
The Treaty of Edinburgh was a treaty drawn up on 5 July 1560 between the Commissioners of Queen Elizabeth I of England with the assent of the Scottish Lords of the Congregation, a…
The Treaty of Edinburgh is signed by Scotland and England.
Wilhelm Fabry, often called the "Father of German surgery", was the first educated and scientific German surgeon. He is one of the most prominent scholars in the iatromechanics sch…
Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (died 1634)
Giovanni Paolo Lascaris di Ventimiglia e Castellar was an Italian nobleman and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (died 1657)
Philip Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lut…
Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (born 1497)
Mary of Guise, also called Mary of Lorraine, was Queen of Scotland from 1538 until 1542, as the second wife of King James V. She was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a ca…
Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1515)
Ii Naomori was a retainer of the Japanese Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. His childhood name was Toramatsu (虎松). Naomori's daughter was Ii Naotora who …
Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (born 1506)
Imagawa Yoshimoto was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the Sengoku period. Based in Suruga Province, he was known as The number one archer in the Tōkaidō ; he was one of the three…
Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1519)