1576

1576 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1576; MDLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2329
Armenian calendar	1025; ԹՎ ՌԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6326
Balinese saka calendar	1497–1498
Bengali calendar	983
Berber calendar	2526
English Regnal year	18 Eliz. 1 – 19 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2120
Burmese calendar	938
Byzantine calendar	7084–7085
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig); 4272 or 4212; — to —; 丙子年 (Fire Rat); 4273 or 4213
Coptic calendar	1292–1293
Discordian calendar	2742
Ethiopian calendar	1568–1569
Hebrew calendar	5336–5337
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1632–1633
- Shaka Samvat	1497–1498
- Kali Yuga	4676–4677
Holocene calendar	11576
Igbo calendar	576–577
Iranian calendar	954–955
Islamic calendar	983–984
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 4; (天正４年)
Javanese calendar	1495–1496
Julian calendar	1576; MDLXXVI
Korean calendar	3909
Minguo calendar	336 before ROC ; 民前336年
Nanakshahi calendar	108
Thai solar calendar	2118–2119
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century ; 16th century ; 17th century ;
Decades:	1550s ; 1560s ; 1570s ; 1580s ; 1590s ;
Years:	1573 ; 1574 ; 1575 ; 1576 ; 1577 ; 1578 ; 1579 ;

Last updated April 07, 2019

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

Roman numerals Numbers in the Roman numeral system

The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Roman numerals, as used today, employ seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value, as follows:

A leap year starting on Sunday is any year with 366 days that begins on Sunday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are AG, such as the years 1888, 1928, 1956, 1984, 2012, 2040, 2068, 2096, 2108, 2136, 2164, and 2192 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 1996 and 2024 in the obsolete Julian calendar.

The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on 1 January 45 BC, by edict. It was the predominant calendar in the Roman world, most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and gradually replaced by the Gregorian calendar, promulgated in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII.

Events

January–June

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 western coast of Africa, which becomes Luanda.
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 – The Battle of Haldighati, Mughal forces led by Man Singh I of Amer decisively defeated the Mewar Kingdom led by Maharana Pratap and Mewar was occupied.

January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 345 days remaining until the end of the year.

Martín Enríquez de Almanza fourth viceroy of New Spain

Martín Enríquez de Almanza y Ulloa, KOS was the fourth viceroy of New Spain, who ruled in the name of Philip II from November 5, 1568 until October 3, 1580. Like many of the viceroys of New Spain, Almanza was of royal heritage. He was a member of the House of Enríquez, one of the four cadet branches of the House of Burgundy, the ruling dynasty in Castile, yet never inherited a title. Enríquez was 60 when he was appointed viceroy in New Spain. He brought strength and stability in the wake of the encomenderos' conspiracy of the son of conqueror Hernán Cortés, Don Martín Cortés and other encomenderos who challenged the crown's power. He was subsequently viceroy of Peru, from September 23, 1581 until his death in 1583, a post he reluctantly accepted at age 72. He was a very able administrator in Mexico, asserting crown control, and effective in establishing defenses against northern natives who threatened the vital link between the silver mines in north and Mexico's center.

León is the most populous city and municipality in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. In the 2015 Intercensal Survey INEGI reported 1,578,626 people living in the municipality of León, making it the fourth most populous municipality in Mexico. The metropolitan area of León recorded a population of 1,630,094 in the 2010 Census, making it the seventh most populous metropolitan area in Mexico. León is part of the macroregion of Bajío within the Central Mexican Plateau.

July–December

July 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
July 12 – Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Raj Mahal .^[1]
August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.
October – the Siege of Takabaru occurs in Japan, when the forces of Shimazu Takahisa besiege and take the fortress of Takabaru, which belonged to the Itō clan.
November 2 – Rudolf II becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
November 4 – Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp; after three days the city is nearly destroyed.
November 8 – Eighty Years' War – Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose pillaging Spanish mutineers.
December
- The States-General of Blois declares itself against the Edict of Beaulieu, beginning the Sixth War of Religion in France.
- James Burbage opens London's first permanent public playhouse, The Theatre .^[2]
Blois is a city and the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.
The Edict of Beaulieu was promulgated from Beaulieu-lès-Loches on 6 May 1576 by Henry III of France, who was pressured by Alençon's support of the Protestant army besieging Paris that spring.
James Burbage was an English actor, theatre impresario, joiner, and theatre builder in the English Renaissance theatre. He built The Theatre, the first permanent dedicated theatre built in England since Roman times.
December 14 – Hungarian Transylvanian Prince Stephen Báthory is elected king of Poland.

July 11 is the 192nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of the year.

The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 927, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Sir Martin Frobisher was an English seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in north-eastern Canada, before entering Frobisher Bay and landing on present-day Baffin Island. On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and carried 200 tons of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £5.2 per ton. Encouraged, Frobisher returned to Canada with an even larger fleet and dug several mines around Frobisher Bay. He carried 1,350 tons of the ore back to England, where, after years of smelting, it was realised that the ore was comparatively worthless iron pyrite. As an English privateer, he plundered riches from French ships. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.

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.
Dartford Grammar School is a selective secondary foundation school for boys in Dartford, Kent, England, which admits girls to its sixth form. All of the students joining the school are considered to be from the top 25% of the ability range, as determined by the 11-Plus examinations. The students come from Dartford, neighbouring towns and villages, and nearby London boroughs, as well as an increasing number of students from Essex. The current roll is 1,203, including 461 in the sixth form. It is the brother school of Dartford Grammar School for Girls.
Sutton Valence School (SVS) is an independent school near Maidstone in southeast England. It has 520 pupils. It is a co-educational day and boarding school. There are three senior boarding houses: Westminster, St Margaret's and Sutton, and one junior Beresford.
Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski founds Ostroh Academy, the first university-level school in Eastern Europe.

The Viceroyalty of New Spain was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. It covered a huge area that included territories in North America, South America, Asia and Oceania. It originated in 1521 after the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the main event of the Spanish conquest, which did not properly end until much later, as its territory continued to grow to the north. It was officially created on 8 March 1535 as a viceroyalty, the first of four viceroyalties Spain created in the Americas. Its first viceroy was Antonio de Mendoza y Pacheco, and the capital of the viceroyalty was Mexico City, established on the ancient Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.

Peter Martyr Vermigli was an Italian-born Reformed theologian. His early work as a reformer in Catholic Italy and his decision to flee for Protestant northern Europe influenced many other Italians to convert and flee as well. In England, he influenced the Edwardian Reformation, including the Eucharistic service of the 1552 Book of Common Prayer. He was considered an authority on the Eucharist among the Reformed churches, and engaged in controversies on the subject by writing treatises. Vermigli's Loci Communes, a compilation of excerpts from his biblical commentaries organized by the topics of systematic theology, became a standard Reformed theological textbook.

Births

Duchess Anna of Prussia AnnaPreussenBrand.jpg — 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

January 19 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
January 27 – Mizuno Nobumoto, Japanese shōgun
February 10 – Wilhelm/Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
February 12 – John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1525)
March 5 – Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga, Spanish governor of the Netherlands (b. 1528)
March 18 – Johann Stössel, German theologian (b. 1524)
May 14 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (b. 1514)
May 30 – Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai
June 30 – Franciscus Sonnius, Dutch counter-Reformation theologian (b. 1506)
July 2 – Josias Simler, Swiss scholar (b. 1530)
July 11 – Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian noble (d. 1553)
July 16 – Isabella de' Medici, Italian noble (d. 1542)
August 15 or August 22 – Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer and lutenist (b. 1507)
August 27 – Titian, Italian painter (b. c. 1489)
September 21 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b. 1502)
September 22 – Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (b. 1541)
October 12 – Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
October 14 – Konrad Heresbach, German Calvinist (b. 1496)
October 26 – Frederick III, Elector Palatine, ruler from the house of Wittelsbach (b. 1515)
November 4 – John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (b. c. 1510)
November 9 – Chamaraja Wodeyar IV, King of Mysore (b. 1507)
date unknown
- Paula Vicente, Portuguese artist, musician and writer (b. 1519)
probable
- Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (b. 1512)
- Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1511)

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References

↑ Richards, John F. (1996). The Mughal Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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[Richards1996-1] Richards, John F. (1996). The Mughal Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2.

[CBH-2] Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 156–159. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

Gregorian calendar	1576 MDLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2329
Armenian calendar	1025 ԹՎ ՌԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6326
Balinese saka calendar	1497–1498
Bengali calendar	983
Berber calendar	2526
English Regnal year	18 Eliz. 1 – 19 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2120
Burmese calendar	938
Byzantine calendar	7084–7085
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4272 or 4212 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4273 or 4213
Coptic calendar	1292–1293
Discordian calendar	2742
Ethiopian calendar	1568–1569
Hebrew calendar	5336–5337
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1632–1633
- Shaka Samvat	1497–1498
- Kali Yuga	4676–4677
Holocene calendar	11576
Igbo calendar	576–577
Iranian calendar	954–955
Islamic calendar	983–984
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 4 (天正４年)
Javanese calendar	1495–1496
Julian calendar	1576 MDLXXVI
Korean calendar	3909
Minguo calendar	336 before ROC 民前336年
Nanakshahi calendar	108
Thai solar calendar	2118–2119
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

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