Major Events
- Mar 7 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
- Mar 13 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
- Mar 15 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France
- Apr 13 Giovanni, son of Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano is executed for poisoning his wife, despite his father's efforts to save him
- Jun 12 Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto in Owari Province, Japan
- Jul 6 England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh
- Jul 29 Turkish fleet recaptures Djerba on Spanjaarden
- Aug 21 Future Danish astronomer 14-year-old Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy after observing a solar eclipse
- Sep 25 Spanish King Philip II names Frederik V Schenck van Toutenburg as the first Archbishop of Utrecht
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Who Died in 1560
- Jan 1 Joachim du Bellay, French poet and founder of the Pléiade, dies at 38
- Jan 3 Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56
- Jan 28 John a Lasco [Jan Laski], Polish nobleman and Calvinist reformer, dies at about 60
- Feb 7 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
- Feb 16 Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
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