Explore 131 historical events from 1560–1569.
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)
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary. Báthory and f…
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and purported serial killer (died 1614)
Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vi…
Hieronymus Praetorius, German organist and composer (died 1629)
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)
Sir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first to deliberately attempt to emulate Sir Francis Drake, raiding Spanish t…
Thomas Cavendish, English naval explorer, led the third expedition to circumnavigate the globe (died 1592)
Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, who later became Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. In the variable spelling of the day, her name also wa…
Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (born 1536)
The Scottish Reformation Parliament was the assembly elected in 1560 that passed legislation leading to the establishment of the Church of Scotland. These included the Confession …
The Scottish Reformation Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith, initiating the Scottish Reformation and…