1. Events

2. Astronomy

3. Biology

4. Births

5. Deaths

6. References

The year 1560 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here.

Events

• The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded in Naples by Giambattista della Porta.^[1][2][3]

Astronomy

• August 21 – A total solar eclipse is observable in Europe.

Biology

• The Old Botanical Garden, Zurich, originates as Conrad Gessner's private herbarium.

Births

• January 17 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (died 1624)
• June 25 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (died 1634)
• undated – Charles Butler, English beekeeper (died 1647)
• approx date
  • Thomas Harriot, English ethnographer, astronomer and mathematician (died 1621)
  • Hugh Myddelton, Welsh-born goldsmith and hydraulic engineer (died 1631)

Deaths

• William Shakespeare's grandfather; Richard Shakespeare died from natural causes, on 23 April.

References

• St john's
• St John's, Aberdeen
• St. John's AF & AM Lodge
• St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Norfolk, Virginia)
• St. John's AHL team
• St John's Almshouses, Ripon
• St. John's Ambulance Association
• St. John's Ambulances
• St. John's AME Church
• St. John's AME Church (Norfolk, Virginia)
• St John's Anglican Church, Albany
• St John's Anglican Church, Dalby
• St John's Anglican Church, Darlinghurst
• St John's Anglican Church, Fremantle
• St John's Anglican Church, Trentham
• St John's Anglican College, Brisbane
• St. Johns, Apache, Arizona
• St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona
• St. John's Archcathedral (Warsaw)
• St John's Ashfield
• St. John's Baptist Church
• St. John's Beacon
• St John's Beaumont
• St John's Beaumont Preparatory School
• St John's, Birkdale