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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Maurice, Elector of Saxony]], liberates [[Augsburg]] and sets about to capture [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>Geoffrey Parker, ''Emperor: A New Life of Charles V'' (Yale University Press, 2019)</ref>
* [[April 11]] &ndash; [[Metz Cathedral]] is consecrated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOIvAWDY44 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/sMOIvAWDY44 |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Timeline of the construction of Metz Cathedral, from 14th to 16th century.|website=[[YouTube]] |format=VIDEO |date= July 17, 2011|access-date= 6 January 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The [[Act of Uniformity 1552|Act of Uniformity]] is given [[royal assent]] and imposes use of the [[Protestant]] [[Book of Common Prayer]] on [[Kingdom of England|England]].
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Pedro de Valdivia]] founds the city of [[La Imperial, Chile]].
* [[April 18]] &ndash; King [[Henry II of France]] enters the city of [[Metz]], ceded to France by Saxony by the January 15 [[Treaty of Chambord]].
* [[April 28]] &ndash; The delegates to the [[Council of Trent]] adjourn for two years after learning that the Holy Roman Emperor is fleeing from Maurice of Saxony.<ref>Ernst Wilhelm Möller, ''History of the Christian Church: A.D. 1517-1648, Reformation and Counter-reformation'' (S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1900) p.240</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; Learning of the rapid approach of the Elector Maurice, the Emperor Charles V flees from [[Innsbruck]] ahead of being captured.<ref>John S. C. Abbott, ''Austria : Its Rise and Present Power'' (P. F. Collier and Son, 1902) p.132</ref>
* [[June 6]] (14th waxing of Waso 914 [[Burmese calendar|ME]]) &ndash; [[Minye Sithu of Martaban|Minye Sithu]] is appointed as the Burmese [[List of rulers of Martaban|Viceroy]] of [[Martaban]] by his older brother, [[Bayinnaung]], King of Burma.<ref>{{cite book | last=Kala | author-link=U Kala | first=U | title=[[Maha Yazawin]] | publisher=Ya-Pyei Publishing | location=Yangon | year=1724 | edition=2006, 4th printing | language=Burmese | volume=2 |page=210}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Yuri of Uglich]], the only brother of the Russian Tsar [[Ivan the Terrible]], is placed in charge of Russia's domestic affairs as Ivan departs [[Moscow]] to lead 150,000 troops in the [[Russo-Kazan Wars#Wars of Ivan II|Russo-Kazan War]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort]], the [[List of governors of Luxembourg|Spanish Governor of Luxembourg]], is taken prisoner by France and remains captive for almost five years. 
* [[June 24]] &ndash; The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] ship ''São João'' is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa.<ref>''Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen'' (Taylor & Francis, 2017)</ref> While 480 people survive initially, all but 25 of them die during the next 165 days while trying to reach the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now [[Mozambique]].