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Millennia:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1530s 1540s 1550s - 1560s - 1570s 1580s 1590s
Years:	1560 1561 1562 1563 1564 1565 1566 1567 1568 1569
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

Births

First, second and third French War of Religion.
In 1565, the city of St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28 in modern-day Florida. The city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
In 1566, widespread Protestant iconoclasm in the Netherlands led to the start of the Eighty Years' War.
In 1569, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was founded.
Suzanne Erkur manages the imperial silver mint at Kutna Hora in Bohemia.
The sweet potato first enters China from the New World of the Spanish Americas; it would come to replace rice as the major staple crop of the poor in China, and would carry a culturally negative association with poverty up until the Communist era.