1565

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

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

Events of 1565

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.

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)
November 10 - Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d. 1646)
date unknown
- Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (d. 1635)
- Gregor Aichinger, German composer (d. 1628)
- Edward Blount, English printer
- Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (d. 1647)
- Marie de Gournay, French writer (d. 1645)
- John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (d. 1618)
- George Kirbye, English composer (d. 1634)
- Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (d. 1646)
- 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)

See also Category: 1565 births.

January 19 - Diego Laynez, Jesuit theologian (b. 1512)
March 17 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
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 20 - Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (b. 1515)
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
- Katherine Champernowne, Governess of Elizabeth I of England
- Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German Protestant reformer (b. 1483)
- William Farel, French evangelist (b. 1489)
- Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
- Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer (b. c. 1510)
- Paweł Tarło, canon of Krakow
- Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (b. 1498)

See also Category: 1565 deaths.

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