La Herradura naval disaster: Twenty-five ships sink in a storm, and some 5,000 people are killed. October 26 – Rouen is captured by Royalist forces under Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, who is mortally wounded. November 5 – Battle of Corrichie in Scotland: The rebellion of George Gordon, Earl of Huntly is crushed by James Stewart, Earl of Moray. November 20 – Maximilian of Bohemia is elected King of the Romans. December 19 – Battle of Dreux: Huguenot and Catholic forces fight a bloody battle, narrowly won by the Catholic side. The official leaders of both armies are captured in the battle. Date unknown Mughal Emperor Akbar conquers Malwa, and its last Sultan, Baz Bahadur, flees. The Church of England approves the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, defining its doctrinal stance. Dudley Grammar School is established, and Gresham's School is granted a royal charter, in England. Fausto Sozzini publishes Brevis explicatio in primum Johannis caput, originating Socinianism. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola publishes Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (Rules of the Five Orders of Architecture); in succeeding centuries it will become the most published book in architectural history. The Pünte at Wiltshausen, a small, hand-operated ferry, now a historic monument, is first recorded. The Portuguese army is defeated at the Battle of Mulleriyawa, Sri Lanka, at the hand of the Sitawaka army commanded by Prince Tikiri Bandara (King Rajasinghe), leaving 1600 dead. This is considered the worst defeat the Portuguese had at that time. An arsenal in Paris exploded. As written by Ambroise Paré in The Workes of Ambrose Parey: "In the yeare of our Lord 1562, a quantity of this pouder [gunpowder] which was not very great, taking fire by accident in the Arcenall of Paris, caused such a tempest that the whole city shook, but it quite overturned many of the neighboring houses, and shook off the tiles and broke the windows of those which were further away; and to conclude, like a storm of lightning, it laid many here and there for dead, some lost their sight, others their hearing, and others their limbs were torn apart as if they had been rent with wild horses" pg.415 Births January – Edward Blount, English publisher (d. 1632) January 12 – Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630) January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (d. 1601) January 20 Maria of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noblewoman