1562


Year 1562 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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  • Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa, and its last Sultan, Baz Bahadur, flees.
  • Dudley Grammar School is established, and Gresham's School is granted a royal charter, in England.
  • Fausto Sozzini publishes Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput, originating Socinianism.
  • Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola publishes Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ''''; in succeeding centuries it will become the most published book in architectural history.
  • The Pünte at Wiltshausen, a small, hand-operated ferry, which becomes a historic monument in the late 20th century, is first recorded.
  • The Portuguese army is defeated at the Battle of Mulleriyawa, Sri Lanka, at the hand of the Sitawaka army commanded by Prince Tikiri Bandara, leaving 1600 dead. This is considered the worst defeat the Portuguese have suffered up to this time.
  • An arsenal in Paris explodes. As recorded by Ambroise Paré in The Workes of Ambrose Parey: "In the yeare of our Lord 1562, a quantity of this pouder which was not very great, taking fire by accident in the Arcenall of Paris, caused such a tempest that the whole city shook, but it quite overturned many of the neighboring houses, and shook off the tiles and broke the windows of those which were further away; and to conclude, like a storm of lightning, it laid many here and there for dead, some lost their sight, others their hearing, and others their limbs were torn apart as if they had been rent with wild horses".

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