1562

events

politics and world happening

• outbreak of the catholic-Protestant Huguenot wars in France
• establishment of the Innsbrucker Jesuitengymnasiums as predecessors of the University of Innsbruck
• FriedrichIV. archbishop of Cologne [to work on

Wied

• 12. January: Karl Emanuel I., Son of Emanuele Filiberto of Savoyen
• 22. September: Vincenzo I. Gonzaga, duke of Mantua and Montferrat († 1612)
• 25. November: Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, splinter Poet († 1635)
• Valerius Herberger

died

• 20. January: Balthasar of Promnitz, bishop von Breslau (* 1488)
• 7. March: Michael Lindener, GermanVarying poet (* around 1520)
• 1. August: Virgilius Solis, was a draughtsman and Kupferstecher (* 1514)
• 19. October: Eggerik Beninga, friesischer historical writer, one of the first statesmen of East Frisia (* 1490)
• 2. November: Gebhard of one field, Archbishop of Cologne (* around 1500?)
• 7. December: Adrian Willaert, flämischer composer and the founder of the Veneziani school (* 1490)