1570

Year 1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1570 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1570
MDLXX
Ab urbe condita2323
Armenian calendar1019
ԹՎ ՌԺԹ
Assyrian calendar6320
Balinese saka calendar1491–1492
Bengali calendar977
Berber calendar2520
English Regnal year12 Eliz. 1  13 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2114
Burmese calendar932
Byzantine calendar7078–7079
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4266 or 4206
     to 
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4267 or 4207
Coptic calendar1286–1287
Discordian calendar2736
Ethiopian calendar1562–1563
Hebrew calendar5330–5331
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1626–1627
 - Shaka Samvat1491–1492
 - Kali Yuga4670–4671
Holocene calendar11570
Igbo calendar570–571
Iranian calendar948–949
Islamic calendar977–978
Japanese calendarEiroku 13 / Genki 1
(元亀元年)
Javanese calendar1489–1490
Julian calendar1570
MDLXX
Korean calendar3903
Minguo calendar342 before ROC
民前342年
Nanakshahi calendar102
Thai solar calendar2112–2113
Tibetan calendar阴土蛇年
(female Earth-Snake)
1696 or 1315 or 543
     to 
阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
1697 or 1316 or 544
Abraham Ortelius publishes the first modern atlas.

Events

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

  • July 3 The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus begins.
  • July 14 Pope Pius V issues Quo primum, promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.
  • July 22 Thomson Snell & Passmore was founded, the oldest law firm in operation
  • July 30 Battle of Anegawa: The allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans.
  • August 8 The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.[4]
  • August 16 The Treaty of Speyer is signed between John Sigismund Zápolya, Prince of Transylvania and Maximilian II, King of Hungary.
  • September 10 A party of ten Spanish Jesuit missionaries land on the Virginia Peninsula of North America to establish the Ajacán Mission, which will be massacred in February 1571.
  • November 16-17 The 1570 Ferrara earthquake strikes the Italian city of Ferrara. After the initial shocks, a sequence of aftershocks continue for four years, with over 2,000 in the period from November 1570 to February 1571.[5]
  • December 13 The Treaty of Stettin ends the Northern Seven Years' War.

Date unknown

  • Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo (in the service of Miguel López de Legazpi) begins the conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila.
  • Construction of the original Catedral Nuestra Señora de La Asunción, the oldest church in Venezuela, begins.
  • The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is known to be in existence in London. By 2017, when it closes its premises in Whitechapel, it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.
  • Andrea Palladio publishes I quattro libri dell'architettura in Venice.[6]
  • Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins.
  • The Andean population of the Viceroyalty of Peru reaches 1.3 million.

Births

Hans Lippershey
  • January 1
    • Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Spouse of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (d. 1649)
    • John Dackombe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1618)
  • January 19 Wolfgang Hirschbach, German legal scholar (d. 1620)
  • January 22 Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
  • February Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (b. 1512)
  • March 25 Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre, English baron and politician (d. 1616)
  • April 13 Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)[7]
  • May 8 Tamás Esterházy, Hungarian writer (d. 1616)
  • May 22 Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German duke (d. 1605)
  • June 7 Sultan Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (d. 1599)
  • June 13 Paul Peuerl, German organist (d. 1625)
  • August 10 Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1587–1590) (d. 1590)
  • August 21 Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1603–1606) (d. 1606)
  • August 22 Franz von Dietrichstein, German Catholic bishop (d. 1636)
  • August 31 Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1597)
  • September 28 Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1630)
  • October 3 George Coke, British bishop (d. 1646)
  • October 4 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
  • October 7
    • Volkert Overlander, Dutch mayor (d. 1630)
    • Jean Richardot the Younger, Belgian politician (d. 1614)
  • November 1 Phineas Pett, English shipwright and member of the Pett Dynasty (d. 1647)
  • November 15 Francesco Curradi, Italian painter (d. 1661)
  • November 20 Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Italian churchman, papal diplomat, and writer on art theory (d. 1632)
  • November 26 Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Ærø (1622–1633) (d. 1633)
  • November 28 James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
  • December 7 Richard Cecil, English politician (d. 1633)
  • December 29 Wilhelm Lamormaini, Luxembourgian theologian (d. 1648)
  • date unknown
    • Diego Aduarte, Prior of Manila (d. 1637)
    • Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (d. 1638)
    • Ebba Bielke, Swedish baroness and conspirator (d. 1618)
    • John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (d. 1626)
    • John Farmer, English composer (d. c.1601)
    • Simon Grahame, Scottish-born adventurer (d. 1614)
    • Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyō (d. 1612)
    • Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (d. 1619)
    • Asprilio Pacelli, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1623)
    • Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (d. 1655)
    • Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630)
    • John Smyth, English Baptist minister (d. 1612)
    • Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief (d. 1620)
    • Claudia Sessa, Italian composer (d. 1617/19)
    • Katharina Henot, German General Postmaster and alleged witch (d. 1627)
    • Urszula Meyerin, politically influential Polish courtier (d. 1635)
    • Christina Rauscher, German official and critic of witchcraft persecutions (d. 1618)

Deaths

Ippolita Gonzaga
Manuel da Nobrega
Duke Frederick III of Legnica
  • January 8 Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. 1510)
  • January 23 James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) (b. c.1531)
  • February 13 Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, politically active Italian duchess (b. 1493)
  • February 20 Johannes Scheubel, German mathematician (b. 1494)
  • March 1 Bernhard VII, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1540)
  • March 16 Ippolita Gonzaga, Italian nun (b. 1503)
  • April 13 Daniele Barbaro, Italian architect (b. 1514)
  • July 3 Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (executed) (b. c. 1500)
  • July 25 Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat
  • August 4 Marie Catherine Gondi, French court official (b. c. 1500)
  • September 6 Agostino Gallo, Italian agronomist (b. 1499)
  • September 11 Johannes Brenz, German theologian and Protestant Reformer (b. 1499)
  • October 1 Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
  • October 18 Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Brazil (b. 1517)
  • October 20
    • João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
    • Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (b. 1521)
  • November Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (b. 1539)
  • November 21 Ruxandra Lăpușneanu, Moldavian regent (b. 1538)
  • November 27 Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)[8]
  • December 15 Frederick III of Legnica, Duke of Legnica (b. 1520)
  • date unknown
    • François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (b. 1496)
    • Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (b. 1504)
    • Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist

References

  1. The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1967. p. 174.
  2. Marijke Donkersloot-de Vrij; Y. Marijke Donkersloot-De Vrij (1967). The World on Paper: A Descriptive Catalogue of Cartographical Material Published in Amsterdam During the Seventeenth Century. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. p. 27.
  3. Lorelei D. C. De Viana (2001). Three Centuries of Binondo Architecture, 1594-1898: A Socio-historical Perspective. University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. p. 6. ISBN 978-971-506-169-8.
  4. Mack P. Holt (October 13, 2005). The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629. Cambridge University Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-139-44767-6.
  5. Guidoboni, Emanuela. "Terremoti a Ferrara e nel suo territorio: un rischio sottovalutato". Ferrara, voci di una città. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  6. Kim Williams (December 16, 2008). Nexus Network Journal 10,2: Architecture and Mathematics. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 227. ISBN 978-3-7643-8766-2.
  7. Chase's Calendar of Events 2014. McGraw Hill Professional. October 4, 2013. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-07-183091-1.
  8. Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1963). An Introduction to Italian Sculpture. Phaidon Press. p. 51.
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