1565
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March 1 - the
city of
Rio de Janeiro is founded.
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April 27 -
Cebu City is established becoming the first
Spanish settlement in the
Philippines.
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May 18 - The
Ottoman troops landed on the island of
Malta.
The Great Siege of Malta began.
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June 17 -
Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th
Ashikaga Shogun,
Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
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July 29 -
Mary Stuart, widowed, marries
Lord Darnley,
duke of
Albany.
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August 28 -
St. Augustine, Florida (named after
St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining
European settlement in the
United States.
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September 4 -
Spanish fleet of
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day
Florida to oust the
French under
Jean Ribault. He later destroys the
French colony of
Fort Caroline.
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September 8 -
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles in
St. Augustine, Florida.
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September 8 - The
Knights of Malta lift the
Turkish Siege of Malta (siege started on
May 18).
Unknown dates
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Miguel López de Legaspi founds
San Miguel, the first
Spanish settlement in the
Philippines.
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Russia, beginning of the
Opritchtina.
* The
pencil is first documented by
Conrad Gesner.
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April 2 -
Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died
1599)
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August 16 -
Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (died
1637)
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November 10 -
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian and astronomer (d.
1646)
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Reza Abbasi, Persian painter and calligrapher (died
1635)
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Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died
1628)
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Edward Blount, English printer
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Ferdinando Gorges, English colonial entrepreneur (died
1647)
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Marie de Gournay, French writer (died
1645)
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John Davies of Hereford, Welsh poet (died
1618)
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George Kirbye, English composer (died
1634)
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Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died
1646)
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Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died
1647)
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Pedro Fernández de Quirós, Portuguese seaman and explorer (died
1614)
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John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St Andrews (died
1639)
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Francis Tanfield, Governor of the South Falkland colony
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Alessandro Tassoni, Italian poet and writer (died
1635)
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Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier (died
1608)
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Robert Wintour, English conspirator (died
1606)
See also :Category: 1565 births.*
March 17 -
Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (born
1500)
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June 12 -
Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (born
1512)
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June 17 -
Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (born
1536)
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October 5 -
Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (born
1522)
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October 12 -
Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (born
1520)
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October 14 -
Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born
1521)
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October 22 -
Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b.
1479)
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December 9 -
Pope Pius IV (born
1499)
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December 13 -
Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (born
1516)
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Giacomo Aconzio, Italian writer (born
1492)
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Nicolaus Von Amsdorf, German protestant reformer (born
1483)
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Jacques Buus, Flemish composer and organist (born
1500)
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William Farel, French evangelist (born
1489)
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James Lainez, Jesuit theologian (born
1512)
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Yadegar Moxammad, last khan of Kazan Khanae te
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Mikolaj Czarny Radziwill, Polish magnate (born
1515)
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Mikolaj VII Radziwill, Great Chamberlain of Lithuania (born
1546)
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Cypriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born
1515)
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Lope de Rueda, Spanish writer
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Pawel Tarlo, canon of Krakow
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Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian reformer (born
1498)
See also :Category: 1565 deaths.
