In early 1562, the regency government attempted to quell escalating disorder in the provinces, which had been encouraged by factional feuds at court, by instituting the Edict of Saint-Germain, also known as the Edict of January.

After the occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562 – 1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585, when she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II.

Between 1555 and 1562, more than 100 ministers were sent to France.

On 13 December 1562, Mary sent for Knox again after he gave a sermon denouncing certain celebrations which Knox had interpreted as rejoicing at the expense of the Reformation.

In 1562 Elizabeth sent privateers Hawkins and Drake to seize booty from Spanish and Portuguese ships off the coast of West Africa.

In accordance with the Hampton Court Treaty which they had signed with Condé on 20 September 1562, the English sent troops to support the Protestants, and these occupied Le Havre.

He represented King Charles IX at the Council of Trent in 1562, but had to retire in consequence of the attitude he had adopted, and was sent as ambassador to Venice, where he remained till 1567, returning again in 1570.

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

He became a member of parliament, and was sent in 1562 as ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566 ; and in 1572 he again went to France in the same capacity for a short time.

The Huguenots scorned their Landsknecht mercenaries after these were immediately routed by the battered Swiss mercenary pike-block they had been sent to finish off at the Battle of Dreux ( 1562 ).

It appears that the Mughal emperor Akbar heard of his prowess and sent his emissary Jalaluddin Qurchi to Ramachandra, who had little choice but to acquiesce, and Tansen went to Akbar's court in 1562.

In 1562 – 1563 he commanded the army Elizabeth sent to Le Havre to garrison the town and assist the Huguenots in the First French War of Religion.

In the 1562 pastoral visit James Pandolfi, sent by the Bishop of Brescia Domenico Bollani, is intimate to the local authority to stop the dancing public, too often

When the civil wars began in 1562, Coligny decided to take arms only after long hesitation, and remained always ready to negotiate.

Maximilian II ( 31 July 1527 – 12 October 1576 ) was king of Bohemia and king of the Romans ( king of Germany ) from 1562, king of Hungary and Croatia from 1563, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation from 1564 until his death.

The connection of the two shrubs lies in their introduction from Ottoman gardens to European ones, effected at the same time by the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, who returned to Vienna in 1562.

In 1524, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, arrived at Valenciennes, and — even when Henry II of France allied with him against the Protestants in 1552 — Valenciennes became ( c. 1560 ) an early center of Calvinism and in 1562 was location of the first act of resistance against persecution of Protestants in the Spanish Netherlands.

A three-aisled church dedicated to the Most Holy Annunciation () was built in the Collegio Romano between 1562 and 1567 on the foundations of the pre-existing construction.

The Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, is generally credited with supplying lilac slips to Carolus Clusius, about 1562.

He gave permanent form to the Hessian Church by the great agenda of 1566 – 67, and in his will, dated 1562, urged his sons to maintain the Augsburg Confession and the Concord of Wittenberg, and at the same time to work in behalf of a reunion of Roman Catholics and Protestants if opportunity and circumstances should permit.

He was born in Southampton sometime after 24 August 1562 to Roman Catholic parents, Peter Tichborne and his wife Elizabeth ( née Middleton ).

The earliest, Regola delli cinque ordini d ' architettura of the five orders of architecture " ( first published in 1562, probably in Rome ), presented Vignola's practical system for constructing columns in the five classical orders ( Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite ) utilizing proportions which Vignola derived from his own measurements of classical Roman monuments.

Roman, 13 April 1562:

* William Wright ( priest ) ( 1562 – 1639 ), English Roman Catholic missionary priest

In the West the work is best known for the enormous illustrated manuscript commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in about 1562.

He returned from Turkey in 1562 and became a counsellor in the court of Emperor Ferdinand in Vienna and tutor to his grandchildren, the sons of future Emperor Maximilian II.

In 1562 he accompanied the ambassador Michele Suriano to the Court of Emperor Maximilian II and acted as official historiographer of the Republic ; during which office he delivered the funeral oration for those killed at the naval battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ).

In 1562, Emperor Ferdinand I visited the prosperous town of Obernai.

In October 1562 the Queen fell ill with smallpox and, believing her life to be in danger, she asked the Privy Council to make Robert Dudley Protector of the Realm and to give him a suitable title together with twenty thousand pounds a year.

In 1560 the diplomat Nicholas Throckmorton advocated vehemently against Dudley marrying the Queen, but Dudley won him over in 1562.

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.

His open quarrel with the Earl of Arran and the Hamiltons, who accused him of intriguing against the Crown, caused some degree of anguish to the Queen, and although the Earl of Arran was eventually declared mad, Bothwell was nevertheless imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle without trial in 1562.

After briefly attempting a clerical career, in 1562, he married a servant, Piera Parigi, with whom he claimed he had five children, of which only a son and two daughters survived him.

Andrea Gabrieli went there in 1562, and possibly remained in the chapel for a year ; Giovanni Gabrieli also possibly studied with him in the 1570s.

After his meeting with Lassus in 1562, his style changed considerably, and the Netherlander became the strongest influence on him.

He is considered the central figure in the revival of Joseon Buddhism, and most major streams of modern Korean Seon trace their lineages back to him through one of his four main disciples: Yu Jeong ( 1544 – 1610 ); Eongi ( 1581 – 1644 ), Taeneung ( 1562 – 1649 ) and Ilseon ( 1533 – 1608 ), all four of whom were lieutenants to Seosan during the war with Japan.

Characteristically, she temporised ; but finding that O ' Neill was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, " recognising " him as " The O ' Neill " and of Tyrone ( meaningless, as she had no authority to do so, and it was already done ); though a reservation was made of the rights of Hugh O ' Neill, who had meantime succeeded his brother Brian as baron of Dungannon, Brian having been murdered in April 1562 by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O ' Neill.

Sussex was the first representative of the English Crown who enforced authority to any considerable extent beyond the limits of the Pale ; the policy of planting English settlers in Offaly and Leix was carried out by him in 1562 with a certain measure of success ; and although he fell far short of establishing English rule throughout any large part of Ireland, he made its influence felt in remote parts of the island, such as Thomond and the Glynnes of Antrim, where the independence of the native septs had hitherto been subjected not even to nominal interference.

On 19 November 1562, he was in an affray in the Strand in which he ran Robert Bannister through with his sword and left him to die.

His status was definitely fixed ( in the case of lord keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon ) by the Lord Keeper Act 1562 ( 5 Eliz 1 c 18 ), which declared him entitled to like place, pre-eminence, jurisdiction, execution of laws, and all other customs, commodities, and advantages as the Lord Chancellor.

In 1562, Turner published the second part of his Herbal, dedicated to Sir Thomas Wentworth, son of the patron who had enabled him to go to Cambridge.

Francesco's brother outlived him by at least 19 years, and died sometime after 1562.

From 15 to 18 February 1562, Guise visited the Duke of Württemberg at Saverne, and convinced him that if the conference at Poissy had failed, the fault was that of the Calvinists.

In 1562 Coligny chose him to lead an expedition to the New World to found a colony.

Although Palissy was Protestant, these nobles protected him from the ordinances of the parliament of Bordeaux, which, in 1562, seized the property of all the Protestants in this district.

After his death in 1562, his infant son Burhan succeeded him to the throne.

Coming of age ( 1561 ) he went to Lyon, probably engaging in mercantile business ; he revisited Italy after his uncle Lelio Sozzini's death ; we find him in 1562 on the roll of the Italian church at Geneva ; there is no trace of any relations with Calvin.

All these manoeuvrings upset the balance of his mind and at Easter 1562, his father tried to confine him to his bedchamber at Kinneil House while he was unwell.

In 1562, he obtained a warrant permitting him to bring French ships into English ports although England and France were only nominally at peace.

By his first wife he had nine children, among which: Francesca ( born 1469, died 1562 ), who married Don Sigismondo Carafa, Prince of Aliano in 1500, and Ludovico ( died 1534 ) who succeeded him as Count of Pitigliano.