1560
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1560 (MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
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Events
- July 6 – Treaty of Edinburgh
Births
- Anton Praetorius, fighter against torture and chase of witches (d. 1613)
- August 7 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian murderer
- November 28 – Baltasar of Marradas, Spanish noblemanbleman, knight of the Knights of Malta, imperial field marshal, governor in Bohemia (d. 1638)
Deaths
- April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer
- September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)
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