1576

Year 1576 (MDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1576 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1576
MDLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2329
Armenian calendar1025
ԹՎ ՌԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6326
Balinese saka calendar1497–1498
Bengali calendar983
Berber calendar2526
English Regnal year18 Eliz. 1  19 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2120
Burmese calendar938
Byzantine calendar7084–7085
Chinese calendar乙亥年 (Wood Pig)
4272 or 4212
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4273 or 4213
Coptic calendar1292–1293
Discordian calendar2742
Ethiopian calendar1568–1569
Hebrew calendar5336–5337
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1632–1633
 - Shaka Samvat1497–1498
 - Kali Yuga4676–4677
Holocene calendar11576
Igbo calendar576–577
Iranian calendar954–955
Islamic calendar983–984
Japanese calendarTenshō 4
(天正4年)
Javanese calendar1495–1496
Julian calendar1576
MDLXXVI
Korean calendar3909
Minguo calendar336 before ROC
民前336年
Nanakshahi calendar108
Thai solar calendar2118–2119
Tibetan calendar阴木猪年
(female Wood-Pig)
1702 or 1321 or 549
     to 
阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1703 or 1322 or 550
November 4: Sack of Antwerp

Events

November 8: Pacification of Ghent

JanuaryJune

  • January 20 Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza founds the settlement of León, Guanajuato, in New Spain (modern-day Mexico).
  • January 25 Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founds the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the south western coast of Africa, which becomes Luanda.[1]
  • 1st May Hungarian Transylvanian Prince Stephen Báthory is crowned king of Poland.
  • May 5 The Edict of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after "Monsieur", the Duke of Anjou, brother of the King, Henry III of France, who negotiated it) ends the Fifth War of Religion in France. Protestants are again granted freedom of worship.
  • June 18 Battle of Haldighati: Mughal forces, led by Man Singh I of Amer, decisively defeat the Mewar Kingdom led by Maharana Pratap.

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • The 1576 Cocoliztli epidemic causes millions of deaths in the territory of New Spain, in modern-day Mexico.
  • An early example of autobiography is written in English, by Thomas Whythorne.
  • The Loci Communes of Peter Martyr Vermigli (d. 1562), edited by Robert le Maçon, are published in London.
  • The following schools are founded in England:
    • Dartford Grammar School, by William d'Aeth, Edward Gwyn and William Vaughn.
    • Sutton Valence School, by William Lambe.
  • Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski founds Ostroh Academy, the first university-level school in Eastern Europe.

Births

Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria
Duchess Anna of Prussia
  • January 4 Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1599)
  • January 5 Anne Turner, English murderer (d. 1615)
  • January 12 Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium (d. 1660)
  • February 2 Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (d. 1622)
  • February 10 Festus Hommius, Dutch theologian (d. 1642)
  • February 29 Antonio Neri, Italian chemist (d. 1614)
  • March 14 Eric of Lorraine, Bishop of Verdun (d. 1623)
  • March 31 Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau, countess consort and a regent of the Palatinate (d. 1644)
  • May 17 Joam Mattheus Adami, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1633)
  • May 24 Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (d. 1635)
  • May 27 Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist and scholar (d. 1649)
  • June 6 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-born Italian Calvinist theologian and translator (d. 1649)
  • June 16 Giovanni Battista Viola, Italian painter (d. 1622)
  • July 3 Duchess Anna of Prussia, Electress consort of Brandenburg and Duchess consort of Prussia (d. 1625)
  • September 22 Philipp of Bavaria, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1598)
  • October Thomas Weelkes, English composer and organist (d. 1626)
  • October 6 Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, eldest surviving son of John Manners (d. 1612)
  • October 7 John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
  • October 12 Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653)
  • October 28 Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Prince of Anhalt (1586–1603), then Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1603–1621) (d. 1621)
  • October 30 Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian and diplomat (d. 1631)
  • November 6 Charles Günther, Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1605–1630) (d. 1630)
  • November 17 Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
  • November 18 Philipp Ludwig II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (1580–1612) (d. 1612)
  • November 27 Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
  • December 20 Saint John Sarkander, Moravian priest (d. 1620)
  • date unknown
    • William Ames, English Protestant philosopher (d. 1633)
    • John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (d. 1621)
    • Giulio Cesare la Galla, professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy (d. 1624)
    • Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (d. 1646)
  • probable Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1622)

Deaths

Tahmasp I

References

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  2. Richards, John F. (1996). The Mughal Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2.
  3. Carmelo Peter Comberiati (1987). Late Renaissance Music at the Habsburg Court: Polyphonic Settings of the Mass Ordinary at the Court of Rudolf II, 1576-1612. Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-2-88124-192-5.
  4. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. Harold Edwin Wethey; Tiziano Vecellio; Titian (1969). The Paintings of Titian: The religious paintings. Phaidon. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7148-1393-6.
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