History
1562 
World
General
Population: 509 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include Rabelais Pantagruel (posthumous), Torwuato Tasso Rinaldo,
Art includes Pieter Brueghel "Two Chained Monkeys", Tintoretto "Christ at the Sea of Galilee", Paolo Veronese "The Marriage at Cana" - Religion: Third session of the counsel of Trent reconvenes
- Deaths: Sebastian I of Portugal, Novelist Matteo Bandello, Composer Adrian Willaert, Surgeon Pierre Franco - performer of bladder and cataract surgeries
Africa
- East: Drought at horn of AFR ends after 19 years
- West: Sir John Hawkins starts English slave trade in W Africa
Americas
- General: John Hawkins and Drake make first journey to the New World and begins slave trade between Guinea and West Indies
- North America: French attempt to colonize Florida, Carolinas
Asia
- India: Rajah of Jaipur submits to Akbar the Great
Europe
- General: English troops occupy Le Havre
- England: Queen Elizabeth I becomes dangerously ill from smallpox
English articles of Religion of 1552 reduced to 39 articles
Hall of the Middle Temple in London built - France: 1200 French Huguenots slain at Massacre of Vassy – first French war of religion to 1598 - 60 killed by Guise family during church service
- Holy Roman Empire: Emperor Ferdinand I signs eight-year truce with Suleiman I of Turkey
Maximilian son of Ferdinand I becomes King of Bohemia - Ireland: Shane O'Neill rebels in Ireland – Earl of Tyrone leads two unsuccessful rebellions against England
- Italian States: Gasparo Bertolotti de Salo moves to Brescia to become first great Italian violin maker
- Portugal: Death of Sebastian I of Portugal
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Emperor Ferdinand I signs eight-year truce with Suleiman I of Turkey
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