1560

1560 in other calendars
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

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

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

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)