Year by year · 16th century
1560
1560 in world history: 10 events, 7 births, 12 deaths, 3 states founded and 1 that came to an end. 998 recorded states existed that year.
Events
Battle
Battle of Okehazama
The Battle of Okehazama was fought in June 1560 in Owari Province, Japan, when Oda Nobunaga with a small force made a surprise attack on the much larger army of Imagawa Yoshimoto, which was resting during its march west.
Battle
Battle of Ergeme
The Battle of Ergeme was fought on 2 August 1560 near Ērģeme in northern Latvia during the Livonian War.
Event
Scottish Reformation Parliament
The Scottish Reformation Parliament met in Edinburgh in August 1560, after the Treaty of Edinburgh had removed French and English troops.
Treaty · Peace
Treaty of Edinburgh (1560)
The Treaty of Edinburgh of 6 July 1560 was agreed between England and France after English forces helped the Scottish Protestant lords besiege the French garrison at Leith.
In the profiles
Kingdom of ScotlandThe Reformation Parliament creates a Protestant church
Lan XangSetthathirath moves the capital to Vientiane
QuechuaDomingo de Santo Tomás publishes the first grammar and dictionary of Quechua
Kingdom of NdongoA Portuguese embassy under Paulo Dias de Novais arrives in Ndongo
Wars and longer events
Born in 1560 7
Died in 1560 12
Gustav I of Sweden1496–1560
Andrea Doria1466–1560
Imagawa Yoshimoto1519–1560
Mary of Guise1515–1560
Özdemir Pashad. 1560
Amannisa Khan1526–1560
Juan de Salazar1508–1560
Jean-François de La Rocque de Robervalc. 1500–1560
Philip I, Duke of Pomerania1515–1560- Abd al-Rashid Khan1508–1560
- Ashikaga Haruuji1508–1560
- Chosokabe Kunichika1504–1560
States founded 3
States that came to an end 1
All years → The 16th century →
Cite this page
- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). 1560. In The Epoch Institute, Year by Year. https://the-epoch-institute.org/years/1560
- MLA
- “1560.” The Epoch Institute, Year by Year, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/years/1560. Accessed .
- Chicago
- The Epoch Institute. “1560.” The Epoch Institute, Year by Year. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/years/1560.
- Harvard
- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘1560’, The Epoch Institute, Year by Year. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/years/1560 (Accessed: ).