1560
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1530s 1540s 1550s – 1560s – 1570s 1580s 1590s |
| Years: | 1557 1558 1559 – 1560 – 1561 1562 1563 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1560 MDLX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2313 |
| Armenian calendar | 1009 ԹՎ ՌԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6310 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1481–1482 |
| Bengali calendar | 967 |
| Berber calendar | 2510 |
| English Regnal year | 2 Eliz. 1 – 3 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2104 |
| Burmese calendar | 922 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7068–7069 |
| Chinese calendar | 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4256 or 4196 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4257 or 4197 |
| Coptic calendar | 1276–1277 |
| Discordian calendar | 2726 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1552–1553 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5320–5321 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1616–1617 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1481–1482 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4660–4661 |
| Holocene calendar | 11560 |
| Igbo calendar | 560–561 |
| Iranian calendar | 938–939 |
| Islamic calendar | 967–968 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 3 (永禄３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1479–1480 |
| Julian calendar | 1560 MDLX |
| Korean calendar | 3893 |
| Minguo calendar | 352 before ROC 民前352年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 92 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2102–2103 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1686 or 1305 or 533 — to — 阳金猴年 (male Iron-Monkey) 1687 or 1306 or 534 |
1560 (MDLX) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Events[change]
- July 6 – Treaty of Edinburgh
Births[change]
- 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[change]
- April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer
- September 29 – King Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1496)