1562
Year 1562 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
May 1 - Jean Ribault, French navigator, lands in Florida.
September 22 - Maximilian becomes King of Bohemia.
October - John Hawkins starts the English slave trade. He ships slaves from Sierra Leone to Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
November 20 - Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans.
The Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa.
Births
January 13 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
January 20 - Ottavio Rinuccini, Italian composer
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer
May 6 - Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor
July 25 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese samurai
November 25 - Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and dramatist
Isabella Andreini, Italian actress
John Bull, English composer
Henry Constable, English poet
Maeda Toshinaga, Japanese nobleman
Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter
Deaths
January - Ilie II Rares, Prince of Moldavia
January 9 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
October 9 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist
October 13 - Claudin de Sermisy, French composer
November 17 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France
December 6 - Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter
December 7 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist
Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian