1560

1560 (MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

 Events 
July 6 – Treaty of Edinburgh

 Births 
 Anton Praetorius, fighter against torture and chase of witches (d. 1613)
 August 7 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer
 November 28 – Baltasar of Marradas, Spanish noblemanbleman, knight of the Knights of Malta, imperial field marshal, governor in Bohemia (d. 1638)

 Deaths 
April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer
September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)