1560 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1560.Events
Prose
- Geneva Bible
- Giachem Bifrun – L'g Nuof Sainc Testamaint da nos Signer Jesu Christ s
- Thomas Churchyard – The Contention Churchyeard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
- Scots Confession, officially The Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland, etc.
Drama
- Jacques Grévin – Jules César
- Thomas Preston – Cambises
Poetry
- See 1560 in poetry
Births
- January 5 – John Bois, English Bible translator
- Baptised August 4 – Sir John Harington, English courtier, poet and inventor
- October 10 – Jacobus Arminius, Dutch theologian
- December 3 – Jan Gruter, Netherlandish critic and scholar
- Unknown dates
- *Constantino Cajetan, Italian ecclesiastical historian
- *Álvarez de Paz, Spanish Jesuit theologian
- *Mark Ridley, English lexicographer of Russian and physician
- probable
- *Heinrich Khunrath, German hermetic philosopher writing in Latin
- *Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellanist
Deaths
- January 1 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet
- April 7 – Robert Céneau, French bishop and historian
- April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant theologian
- July 9 – John Slotanus, Dutch Catholic polemical writer
- September 30 – Melchior Cano, Spanish theologian
- November 15 – Domingo de Soto, Spanish theologian
- December 21 – Georg Thym, German poet
- Unknown date – Didacus Ximenes, Spanish theologian and philosopher
