** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).

On 1562, John de Vere had contracted with Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon for Edward to marry one of Huntingdon's sisters ; when he reached the age of 18, he would choose either Elizabeth or Mary Hastings.

* John Bull of England ( 1562 ?- 1628 ), composer and musician

* March 12 – John Bull, English composer ( b. c. 1562 )

He was invited to Geneva in 1557, and to England again in 1561, but declined both invitations, maintaining, however, a constant correspondence with Bishop John Jewel and other English prelates and reformers until his death at Zürich on 12 November 1562.

John Milton ( c. 1562 – 1647 ) described the river as

Lelio Sozzini was the first of the Italian Antitrinitarians to go beyond Arian beliefs in print and deny the pre-existence of Christ in his Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput – a commentary on the meaning of the Logos in John Chapter 1: 1 – 15 ( 1562 ).

Born to yeoman parents, by favour of the local parson John Hayward, Parsons was sent in 1562 to St. Mary's Hall, Oxford.

In England Frisius's method was included in the growing number of books on surveying which appeared from the middle of the century onwards, including William Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse ( 1559 ), Valentine Leigh's Treatise of Measuring All Kinds of Lands ( 1562 ), William Bourne's Rules of Navigation ( 1571 ), Thomas Digges's Geometrical Practise named Pantometria ( 1571 ), and John Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue ( 1607 ).

Mitre Court Buildings are on the site of Fuller's Rents, constructed in 1562 by John Fuller, the Temple's Treasurer.

* John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford ( 1516 – 1562 )

The " John Campbell " is tentatively identified as Boece's contemporary John Campbell of Lundie ( died 1562 ).

Others included Camillo Renato ( 1540 ) Mátyás Dévai Bíró ( 1500 – 1545 ) Michael Servetus ( 1511 – 1553 ) Laelio Sozzini ( 1562 ) Fausto Sozzini ( 1563 ) the Polish Brethren ( 1565 onwards ) Dirk Philips ( 1504 – 1568 ) Gregory Paul of Brzezin ( 1568 ) the Socinians ( 1570 – 1800 ) John Frith ( 1573 ) George Schomann ( 1574 ) Simon Budny ( 1576 )

In 1562 many Székelys took up arms against John II Sigismund, but they were defeated.

His first wife was Margaret St John ( Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, 1533-27 August 1562 ), daughter of Sir John St John ( great-grandson of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso ) and Margaret Walgrave, by whom he had four sons and three daughters:

A new herball, wherin are conteyned the names of herbes … ( London: imprinted by Steven Myerdman and soolde by John Gybken, 1551 ) is the first part of Turner's great work ; the second was published in 1562 and the third in 1568, both by Arnold Birckman of Cologne.

In June 1562, the 5th Lord Ogilvy was badly injured in a duel with John Gordon of Findlater in Edinburgh.

On 4 October 1562, Catherine was married in the Lower Castle of Vilnius, Lithuania, to Duke John of Finland, later King John III of Sweden, the second son of King Gustav I of Sweden and half-brother of the then-reigning King Eric XIV.

In 1562 the manor was bought by John Bolney and Ambrose Dormer, after which it was passed into the family of Tanfield Vachell.

John Day's The Whole Book of Psalmes ( 1562 ) contained sixty-five psalm tunes.

The council was reconvened by Pope Pius IV ( 1559 – 65 ) for the last time, meeting from 18 January 1562, and continued until its final adjournment on 4 December 1563.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

The abbey was sacked by the Huguenots in 1562 and many of the valuable manuscripts were destroyed or removed.

In fact, her skin had been scarred by smallpox in 1562, leaving her half bald and dependent on wigs and cosmetics.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

Renewed Catholic reaction – headed by the powerful Francis, Duke of Guise – led to a massacre of Huguenots at Vassy in 1562, starting the first of the French Wars of Religion, during which English, German, and Spanish forces intervened on the side of rival Protestant and Catholic forces.

Looting of the Churches of Lyon by the Calvinists, in 1562.

The tomb and his remains were utterly destroyed in 1562 by the Huguenots.

In 1562, the Bavarian government sent a long plea to the Holy Roman Emperor asking him to stop the cutting of yew, and outlining the damage done to the forests by its selective extraction, which broke the canopy and allowed wind to destroy neighbouring trees.

* 1562 – 23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.

The immunity enjoyed by witnesses began also to be whittled down or interfered with by the parliament in England in 1540 with subornation of perjury and, in 1562, with perjury proper.

On 18 January 1562 the council of Trent, which had been suspended by Pope Julius III, was opened for the third time.

Ultimately, at least 150 of the congregation did make their way to Amsterdam meeting up with the Smyth party, who had joined with the Exiled English Church led by Francis Johnson ( 1562 – 1617 ), Barrowe's successor.

Many were settings of metrical psalms, in which the solo voice sings a melody in the manner of the numerous metrical psalm collections of the day ( e. g. Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter, 1562 ) with each line prefigured by imitation in the accompanying instruments.

It survived the sack of Bayeaux by the Hugenots in 1562 and the next definite reference is from 1724.

She died of smallpox in 1562 and her grave was damaged by a storm in the early 19th century.

It was also later written of by the Ming Dynasty Chinese scholar Xu Guangqi ( 1562 – 1633 ).

Yaxley had been employed by Margaret Douglas ; his interrogation at the Tower of London in February 1562 revealed that he had obtained intelligence about the English Court from the Spanish ambassador, and the ambassador had entrusted him and Hugh Allen with messages and tokens for the Lennoxes and Darnley.

Although the Lennox threat never died out, Elizabeth did not convict the family of treason in 1562 after their arrest, nor did she encourage steps made to annul Margaret's claim to her throne by inquiring into her legitimacy.

These tensions spurred eight civil wars, interrupted by periods of relative calm, between 1562 and 1598.

In 1562, the marriage was annulled and the Seymours were censured as fornicators for their " carnal copulation " by the Archbishop of Canterbury's commission.

The slaughter of Huguenots ( French Protestants ) by Catholics at Sens, Burgundy, in 1562 occurred at the beginning of more than thirty years of religious strife between French Protestants and Catholics.

Historians estimate that in the 1560s, more than half of the nobility were Calvinist ( or Huguenot ), and 1, 200 – 1, 250 Calvinist churches had been established, by 1562 with the outbreak of war, there were 2 million Calvinists.

Looting of the Churches of Lyon by the Calvinists, in 1562.