Explore 103 historical events from 1560–1569.
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the powerful House of Báthory, who owned land in the Kingdom of Hungary. Báthory and f…
Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and purported serial killer (died 1614)
Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vi…
Hieronymus Praetorius, German organist and composer (died 1629)
Philip Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lut…
Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (born 1497)
Mary of Guise, also called Mary of Lorraine, was Queen of Scotland from 1538 until 1542, as the second wife of King James V. She was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a ca…
Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (born 1515)
Ii Naomori was a retainer of the Japanese Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. His childhood name was Toramatsu (虎松). Naomori's daughter was Ii Naotora who …
Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (born 1506)
Imagawa Yoshimoto was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the Sengoku period. Based in Suruga Province, he was known as The number one archer in the Tōkaidō ; he was one of the three…
Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1519)
The Scottish Reformation Parliament was the assembly elected in 1560 that passed legislation leading to the establishment of the Church of Scotland. These included the Confession …
The Scottish Reformation Parliament approved a Protestant confession of faith, initiating the Scottish Reformation and…