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)
4273 or 4066
     to 
丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4274 or 4067
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

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • January 20 Martín Enríquez de Almanza, Viceroy of New Spain, founds the settlement of León, in what is later the state of Guanajuato in Mexico.
  • January 25 Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founds the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the southwestern coast of Africa, now Luanda, capital of Angola.[1]
  • February 5 King Henry of Navarre, captive in France since 1572 and alive only because he converted to Catholicism, escapes to Tours and formally reverts to the Protestant faith.Dupuy, Trevor N.; Johnson, Curt; Bongard, David L. (1995). [2]
  • February 8 Peter Wentworth, a Puritan M.P. of the Parliament of England, is arrested in the middle of giving an address criticizing "rumours and messages" given to suppress freedom of speech. When he says that "the devil was the first author of them, from whom proceedeth nothing but wickedness", he is interrupted and taken to the Tower of London for imprisonment.[3]
  • March 11 The city of Fez, part of the Saadi Sultanate in what is now Morocco is captured by Ottoman forces led by Abd al-Malik, in an attempt to overthrow the Sultan Muhammed al-Mutawakkil and to make the Sultanate a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.[4]

AprilJune

  • April 14 Ishiyama Hongan-ji War: In Japan, the Third Battle of Ishiyama begins as Oda Nobunaga sends 10,000 soldiers against the Ashikaga shogunate to capture the Honganji Temple.
  • April 25 Documents for the Union of Delft are signed by Dutch leader Willem van Oranj to create a federation of Holland and Zeeland.[5]
  • May 1 Stephen Báthory, the Hungarian Prince of Transylvania, is crowned king of Poland.
  • May 6 The Edict of Beaulieu, negotiated by Monsieur Francois, Duke of Anjou and brother of King Henry III of France, ends the Fifth War of Religion. By the terms of the "Peace of Monsieur" that led to agreement on the Edict, freedom of worship is granted again to the Protestant Hugueonots.[6]
  • May 14 Tahmasp I, the Shah of Safavid Iran for almost 52 years, is accidentally poisoned after being treated by the palace physician, Abu Naser Gilani. Tahmasp's death is followed by a deadly struggle for control of Iran.[7]
  • May 15 Tahmap's son Haydar Mirza Safavi declares himself the new Safavid Shah of Iran, the day after the death of his father. Later in the day, Haydar is assassinated by members of the palace guard who are loyal to Haydar's brother, Ismail Mirza.[8] Haydar attempts to disguise himself as a woman in the royal harem, but is discovered and beheaded.
  • May 27 An attempt by the Dutch Republic to end the Siege of Zierikzee and free the city from Spain fails after Spanish forces are tipped off about a surprise attack. Dutch Admiral Lodewijk van Boisot is killed in the battle.
  • June 13 Dutch forces withdraw from their attempt to free Zierikzee, and the city is left to defend itself. The defenders then begin negotiations with the Spanish attackers, commanded by General Cristóbal de Mondragón.
  • June 18 In the Battle of Haldighati in India, Mughal Imperial forces, led by Man Singh I of Amer, decisively defeat the Mewar Kingdom led by Maharana Pratap.

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

Date unknown

Births

Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria

Deaths

References

  1. W. Martin James (1 March 2018). Historical Dictionary of Angola. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-5381-1123-9.
  2. "Henry IV of France", in The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, ed. by Trevor N. Dupuy, et al. (Castle Books, 1995) p.326
  3. Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, 1558-1581 [vol. I], ed. T.E. Hartley (University of Leicester Press, 1981) p.422
  4. "Saʿdids", by Chantal de la Véronne, in The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill, 2012)
  5. "William the Silent", in The Thirty Years War, by C. V. Wedgwood, (Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1945) pp.160-163
  6. Pierre Miquel, Les Guerres de Religion (Fayard, 1980) p.314
  7. "PARIḴĀN ḴĀNOM", by Manuchehr Parsadust, Encyclopaedia Iranica (2009)
  8. David Blow, Shah Abbas: The Ruthless King Who became an Iranian Legend (I. B. Tauris, 2009) p.20
  9. Richards, John F. (1996). The Mughal Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2.
  10. "Esmāʿil II", in Encyclopædia Iranica, ed. by Kioumars Ghereghlou (2016)
  11. 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.
  12. Robert Knecht, Catherine de' Medici (Routledge, 2014) p.187
  13. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  14. Harold Edwin Wethey; Tiziano Vecellio; Titian (1969). The Paintings of Titian: The religious paintings. Phaidon. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7148-1393-6.
  15. Paul E. J. Hammer (24 June 1999). The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597. Cambridge University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-521-43485-0.
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