==Births== William Shakespeare, English playwright. Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Events and trends The first, second and third French Wars of Religion were fought between Catholics and Protestants as part of the fallout from the Reformation. In 1565, the city of St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on August 28 in modern-day Florida. The city would become the oldest continually occupied Europea… (More on 1560s)