1573

Year 1573 (MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1573 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1573
MDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita2326
Armenian calendar1022
ԹՎ ՌԻԲ
Assyrian calendar6323
Balinese saka calendar1494–1495
Bengali calendar980
Berber calendar2523
English Regnal year15 Eliz. 1  16 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2117
Burmese calendar935
Byzantine calendar7081–7082
Chinese calendar壬申年 (Water Monkey)
4269 or 4209
     to 
癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4270 or 4210
Coptic calendar1289–1290
Discordian calendar2739
Ethiopian calendar1565–1566
Hebrew calendar5333–5334
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1629–1630
 - Shaka Samvat1494–1495
 - Kali Yuga4673–4674
Holocene calendar11573
Igbo calendar573–574
Iranian calendar951–952
Islamic calendar980–981
Japanese calendarGenki 4 / Tenshō 1
(天正元年)
Javanese calendar1492–1493
Julian calendar1573
MDLXXIII
Korean calendar3906
Minguo calendar339 before ROC
民前339年
Nanakshahi calendar105
Thai solar calendar2115–2116
Tibetan calendar阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
1699 or 1318 or 546
     to 
阴水鸡年
(female Water-Rooster)
1700 or 1319 or 547
January 25: Battle of Mikatagahara

Events

May 26: Battle of Haarlemmermeer

JanuaryJune

  • January 25 Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan: Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.[1]
  • January 28
    • Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
    • The Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt breaks out against the oppressive nobility; the revolt is quelled violently by February 15 and Matija Gubec, leader of the rebellion, publicly executed in Zagreb.
  • FebruaryMarch The siege of Noda Castle takes place in Japan.
  • March 7 The Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) is ended by a peace treaty, confirming the transfer of control of Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire, and also confirming Turkish occupation of the more fertile region of Dalmatia.
  • May 1116 The Duke of Anjou is elected to the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by the Polish nobility.
  • May 26 Battle of Haarlemmermeer: Geuzen ships, attempting to break the siege of Haarlem, are defeated by a combined Spanish and Amsterdam fleet.

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Sarsa Dengel, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats the Oromo in a battle near Lake Zway.
  • The first Spanish galleon, laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China, lands at Manila in the Philippines. This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China, that will trump that of the Portuguese, the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan, and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver. Most of the silver entering China comes from what is now Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru in the New World.
  • The Luzhou Laojiao liquor is made.
  • The Portuguese are expelled from the Maldives.
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, England, is formed.[3]

Births

Elias Holl
Pietro Carrera
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland
  • January 1 Philippus Rovenius, Dutch priest (d. 1651)
  • January 10 Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
  • January 18 Ambrosius Bosschaert, still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. 1621)
  • January 20 Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (d. 1627)
  • January 22 Ludwig Camerarius, German politician (d. 1651)
  • January 30 Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1604–1622) (d. 1638)
  • February 28 Elias Holl, German architect (d. 1646)
  • March 12 Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt, Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Plön (d. 1616)
  • March 24 Giovanni Doria, Spanish noble (d. 1642)
  • April 6 Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noble (d. 1643)
  • April 12 Jacques Bonfrère, Flemish Jesuit priest, biblical scholar (d. 1642)
  • April 13 Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden (d. 1625)
  • April 17 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
  • April 28 Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, natural son of Charles IX of France (d. 1650)
  • May 12 Henri, Duke of Montpensier, French noble (d. 1608)
  • May 13 Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani, Mughal empress (d. 1619)
  • June 12 Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, British Earl (d. 1629)
  • June 16 Andries de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. 1637)
  • June 28 Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (d. 1643)
  • July 12 Pietro Carrera, Italian priest, painter and saint (d. 1647)
  • July 14 Bonaventure Hepburn, Scottish philologist and Minim friar (d. 1620)
  • July 15 Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)[4]
  • July 18 Odoardo Fialetti, Italian painter (d. 1638)
  • July 25 Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
  • July 29 Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (d. 1618)
  • August 16 Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1598)
  • August 25 Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German regent (d. 1626)
  • September 8 Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1629)
  • September 28 Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654)
  • September 29 Robert Payne, English politician (d. 1631)
  • October 6 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (d. 1624)
  • October 7 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)[5]
  • October 11 Jacobus Boonen, Dutch Catholic archbishop (d. 1655)
  • November 3 Catherine of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (d. 1648)
  • November 29 Johannes Canuti Lenaeus, archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1669)
  • November 30 Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (d. 1640)
  • December 6 Odoardo Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1626)
  • December 21 Mathurin Régnier, French satirist (d. 1613)
  • December 22 Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1606–1632) and Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (1625–1632) (d. 1632)
  • December 23 Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian painter (d. 1632)
  • date unknown
    • Gabrielle d'Estrées, French royal mistress (d. 1599)
    • Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyō (d. 1655)
    • Richard Johnson, English romance writer (d. 1659)
    • Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (d. 1628)
    • John Kendrick, English merchant (d. 1624)
    • Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (d. 1626)
    • Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania and of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1613)
  • approximate year
    • June Joan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (d. 1626)

Deaths

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
  • January 1
    • Hans Boije af Gennäs, Swedish commander
    • Johann Pfeffinger, German theologian (b. 1493)
  • January 12 William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (b. 1510)
  • February 7 Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg (b. 1513)
  • March 2 Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1530)
  • March 3 Claude, Duke of Aumale, third son of Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1526)
  • March 13 Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1505)[6]
  • April 2 Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1514)
  • April 7 Andreas Masius, Flemish Catholic priest (b. 1514)
  • April 29 Guillaume Le Testu, French privateer (b. 1509)
  • May 13 Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
  • May 14 (bur.) Richard Grafton, English merchant and printer (b. c.1506/7)
  • June 15 Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (b. 1504)
  • July Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (b. 1532)[7]
  • July 7 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
  • July 16 Wigbolt Ripperda, mayor of Haarlem, Netherlands
  • July 29
    • John Caius, English physician (b. 1510)
    • Ruy Gómez de Silva, Portuguese noble (b. 1516)
  • August 14 Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
  • September 7 Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (b. 1535)
  • September 16 Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese warlord (b. 1533)
  • September 23 Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
  • September 26 Azai Nagamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
  • October 27 Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)[8]
  • November 9 Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (b. 1503)
  • November 17 Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (b. 1494)
  • December 30 Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (b. 1504)
  • date unknown
    • Paul Skalich, Croatian encyclopedist (b. 1534)
    • Reginald Wolfe, English printer
    • Maria van Schooten, Dutch war heroine (b. 1555)
    • Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese warlord (b. 1501)

References

  1. Jeroen Pieter Lamers (2000). Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord, Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered. Hotei Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 978-90-74822-22-0.
  2. James D. Henderson; Alexander C. Henderson; Helen Delpar (2000). A Reference Guide to Latin American History. M.E. Sharpe. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-56324-744-6.
  3. "Queen Elizabeth's boys' grammar has been doing its own thing since 1573". The Independent. April 9, 2014. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  4. "Inigo Jones | English architect and artist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  5. Ronald H. Fritze; William B. Robison (1996). Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-313-28391-8.
  6. Seong-Hak Kim (1991). Michel de L'Hôpital: The Political Vision of a Reformist Chancellor 1560-1568. University of Minnesota. p. 270.
  7. Harry S. Ashmore (1961). Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 80.
  8. August Strindberg (1921). Mäster Olof: prosaupplagan skådespel i fem akter. A. Bonniers. p. xx.
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