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=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 3]] &ndash; In [[Qazvin]], the [[Safavid Iran|Shah of Iran]] [[Tahmasp I]], becomes enraged with the sexual orientation of his son [[Ismail II]], and sends Ismail to [[Afghanistan]] to serve as the Iranian governor of [[Herat]] province.<ref>{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Andrew J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPgBAwAAQBAJ&q=false |title=Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2008 |isbn=9780857716613 |page=33}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] &ndash; [[Pál Márkházy]] surrenders the Hungarian fortress at [[Hajnáčka|Ajnácskő]] (now Hajnáčka in [[Slovakia]]) to the Ottoman Empire. Márkházy, accused of treachery, is stripped of his estates and title by the King of Hungary, and forced to flee to the Principality of Transylvania.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Papp |first=Sándor |title=From a Transylvanian principality to an Ottoman sanjak: The life of Pál Márkházi, a Hungarian renegade |journal=Chronica |volume=4 |page=59 |year=2004 |url=http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/5780/1/chronica_004_057-067.pdf |issn=1588-2039}}</ref> 
* [[May 28]] (20th day of 4th month of [[Kōji (Muromachi period)|Kōji 2]]) &ndash; In [[Japan]], the [[Battle of Nagara-gawa]] takes place along the [[Nagara River]] in [[Mino Province]] near what is now the [[Gifu Prefecture]]. [[Saitō Yoshitatsu]], with 17,500 troops, overwhelms and kills his father, [[Saitō Dōsan]], who had attempted to avenge the Saitō family honor with less than 3,000 people.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turnbull |first=Stephen |title=The Samurai Sourcebook |publisher=Cassell & Co. |year=1998 |ISBN=1-85409-523-4 |page=215}}</ref> 
* [[June 14]] &ndash; [[Lorenzo Priuli]] becomes the new [[Doges of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Venetian Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacKay |first1=George Eric |title=The Doges of Venice Chronologically Arranged with Historical Notes by George Eric Mackay |date=1878 |publisher=F. Ongania |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RSZqgy_j7EkC&dq=Lorenzo+Priuli+venice+%221556%22&pg=PA105 |access-date=11 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref> 
* [[June 27]] &ndash; Thirteen English Protestants (11 men and two women), the "[[Stratford Martyrs]]", are burned at the stake at [[Bow, London|Stratford-le-Bow]] near [[London]] after being convicted of heresy.<ref>[http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe347.htm Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 344. "Thirteen Martyrs Burned at Stratford-Le-Bow".] Exclassics.com. Retrieved 24 May 2013</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140203103644/http://www.johnfoxe.org/freeman-marion.pdf List of martyrs according to Foxe]</ref>