Timeline June 1560

Events in June 1560 4

• 1515 – 1560 Mary of Guise (1515-1560) Died 11 June 1560, aged 44 French noblewoman who served as Queen regent of Scotland on behalf of her daughter Mary, Queen of Scots. She resisted the Scottish Reformation and the Lords of the Congregation during the Siege of Leith, dying weeks before the Treaty of Edinburgh ended the conflict.
• 1519 – 1560 Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519-1560) Died 12 June 1560, aged 41 Daimyo of the Imagawa clan and one of the most powerful warlords in Sengoku-period Japan. He was killed when his much larger army was ambushed and routed by Oda Nobunaga at the Battle of Okehazama.
• 1560 Siege of Leith English and Scottish Protestant forces besiege the French garrison An English army, allied with the Scottish Lords of the Congregation, besieged the French garrison holding the port of Leith in support of the Catholic regent Mary of Guise. The siege ended in a negotiated withdrawal that led directly to the Treaty of Edinburgh.
• 1560 Battle of Okehazama Oda Nobunaga destroys a much larger invading army Oda Nobunaga ambushed and routed the far larger army of Imagawa Yoshimoto near Okehazama, killing Yoshimoto and ending Imagawa power in the region. The upset victory is traditionally seen as the start of Nobunaga's rise toward unifying Japan.