1560s
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Art and culture
- Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (1565) by François Desprez
- The Apology of Herodotus (1566) by French classical scholar Henri Estienne published.
- Calvinists destroy religious art in the Low Countries.
- Religious rioting in the Netherlands signifies the beginning of the Eighty Years' War in the Netherlands.
- Pope Pius IV expels all the prostitutes from Rome.
- 1562 - Several Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
- The Four Elements (Arcimboldo)
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Births
- Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian noblewoman (1560 - 1614)
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Deaths
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