March 23 –
Lope de Aguirre, a
Basque Spanish conquistador, begins a rebellion against the Spanish Crown in an attempt to take over most of Spanish South America.[3]
April 14 – The citizens of
Nuremberg see what appears to be
an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and a large crash (with smoke) outside the city. A news notice (an early form of newspaper) is printed on April 14, describing the event.[5]
April 19 – The
Edict of 19 April, confirming the recent recommendation by the
Estates General, is promulgated by the regency council for King
Charles IX of France in an attempt to prevent a civil war between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Huguenot citizens of France[6]
June 25 –
Francis Coxe, an English astrologer, is pilloried at
Cheapside in London, and makes a public confession of his involvement in "sinistral and divelysh artes".[9]
William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (written early
1553), an early example of extended fiction (specifically
horror fiction) in English, is published anonymously in
London. This edition appears to have been suppressed, and no copies survive.[17]
Between 1561 and
1670, 3,229 alleged witches are executed in southwestern
Germany, most by burning.
^.Roelker, Nancy (1996). One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 251.
ISBN0520086260.
^A. R. MacDonald, 'The Triumph of Protestantism: the burgh council of Edinburgh and the entry of Mary Queen of Scots', Innes Review, 48:1 (Spring 1997), pp. 73-82.
^"Maybole" in Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical · Volume 5, ed. by Francis H. Groome (T. C. Jack, 1884) p.15
^Ken Yagita, Kitakyushu Sengoku History (Imai Shoten, 1999) p.67
^Thornton, John (2006): "Elite Women in the Kingdom of Kongo: Historical Perspectives on Women's Political Power", page 447. The Journal of African History, Vol. 47.
March 23 –
Lope de Aguirre, a
Basque Spanish conquistador, begins a rebellion against the Spanish Crown in an attempt to take over most of Spanish South America.[3]
April 14 – The citizens of
Nuremberg see what appears to be
an aerial battle, followed by the appearance of a large black triangular object and a large crash (with smoke) outside the city. A news notice (an early form of newspaper) is printed on April 14, describing the event.[5]
April 19 – The
Edict of 19 April, confirming the recent recommendation by the
Estates General, is promulgated by the regency council for King
Charles IX of France in an attempt to prevent a civil war between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Huguenot citizens of France[6]
June 25 –
Francis Coxe, an English astrologer, is pilloried at
Cheapside in London, and makes a public confession of his involvement in "sinistral and divelysh artes".[9]
William Baldwin's Beware the Cat (written early
1553), an early example of extended fiction (specifically
horror fiction) in English, is published anonymously in
London. This edition appears to have been suppressed, and no copies survive.[17]
Between 1561 and
1670, 3,229 alleged witches are executed in southwestern
Germany, most by burning.
^.Roelker, Nancy (1996). One King, One Faith: The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. University of California Press. p. 251.
ISBN0520086260.
^A. R. MacDonald, 'The Triumph of Protestantism: the burgh council of Edinburgh and the entry of Mary Queen of Scots', Innes Review, 48:1 (Spring 1997), pp. 73-82.
^"Maybole" in Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical · Volume 5, ed. by Francis H. Groome (T. C. Jack, 1884) p.15
^Ken Yagita, Kitakyushu Sengoku History (Imai Shoten, 1999) p.67
^Thornton, John (2006): "Elite Women in the Kingdom of Kongo: Historical Perspectives on Women's Political Power", page 447. The Journal of African History, Vol. 47.