Explore 117 historical events from 1570–1579.
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1597 to 1612 as the first spouse of King Christian IV of Denmark.
Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (died 1612)
Bartol Kašić was a Croatian Jesuit clergyman and grammarian during the Counter-Reformation, who wrote the first Illyrian grammar and translated the Bible and the Roman Rite into Il…
Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (died 1650)
Matthew Parker was an English bishop. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England from 1559 to his death. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co…
Matthew Parker, English archbishop and academic (born 1504)
Yonekura Shigetsugu (died 1575) was a famous Japanese samurai and a member of the Takeda clan.
Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai
Baba Nobuharu , also known as Baba Nobufusa , was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period. He was known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen". When Takeda Shinge…
Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (born 1515)
Richard Taverner was an English author and religious reformer.
Richard Taverner, English translator (born 1505)
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine o…
French Wars of Religion: Catholic forces defeated an armed group of Huguenots attempting to capture Besançon, from which
The Anglo-Scottish Wars comprise the various battles which continued to be fought between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland from the time of the Wars of Independen…
Anglo-Scottish Wars: A dispute between Sir John Forster and Sir John Carmichael led to a Scottish raid on…
Henry III of France was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589 and, as Henry of Valois, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. Before he ca…
Henry III becomes King of France
Pope Innocent X, born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 September 1644 to his death, in January 1655.
Innocent X, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1655)
Francesco Rasi was a Tuscan composer, singer (tenor), chitarrone player and poet.
Francesco Rasi, Italian singer-songwriter, theorbo player, and poet (died 1621)
Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church poli…
Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (died 1656)
Thomas Platter the Younger was a Swiss-born physician, traveller, and diarist, the son of the humanist Thomas Platter the Elder. He was a professor of anatomy, botany, and medicine…
Thomas Platter the Younger, Swiss physician and author (died 1628)
Sir Robert Dudley was an English explorer and cartographer. In 1594, he led an expedition to the West Indies, of which he wrote an account. The illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1…
Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (died 1649)
Joachim Camerarius, the Elder, was a German classical scholar. His critical abilities, his deep understanding of Greek and Latin, and his wide-ranging knowledge of the ancient worl…
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar and translator (born 1500)
Cosimo I de' Medici was the second and last duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first grand duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Cosimo I succeed…
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1519)
Charles IX was King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II in 1560, and as such was the penultimate mon…
Charles IX of France (born 1550)
Renée of France, was Duchess of Ferrara from 31 October 1534 until 3 October 1559 by marriage to Ercole II d'Este, a grandson of Pope Alexander VI. She was the younger daughter of …
Renée of France, Duchess of Ferrara (born 1510)
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, cons…
Giorgio Vasari, Italian historian, painter, and architect (born 1511)
Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, Lord of Lorges and Ducey, was a French nobleman of Scottish extraction and captain of the Scots Guard of King Henry II of France. He is reme…
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530)
Ebussuud Efendi, was a Hanafi Maturidi Ottoman jurist and Quran exegete, served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire fro…
Ebussuud Efendi, Turkish lawyer and jurist (born 1490)
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer was a naval engagement fought on 26 May 1573, during the early stages of the Dutch War of Independence. It was fought on the waters of the Haarlemmerme…
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Eighty Years' War
Córdoba is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about 700 km (435 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Pr…
Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine o…
French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.