Explore 117 historical events from 1570–1579.
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he…
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died 1651)
Charles de Valois was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and a memoirist.
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles IX (died 1650)
Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, was an English peer, ambassador and military officer.
Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (died 1629)
Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby was an English soldier. Outlawed after a killing, he regained favour and became a Knight of the Garter.
Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (died 1644)
Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry i…
Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652)
Christoph Scheiner was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)
Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of Pomerania-Stettin and is considered to be among of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He mar…
Philip II, duke of Pomerania-Stettin (died 1618)
Anne of Austria was Queen of Poland and Sweden and a Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first consort of King Sigismund III Vasa.
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1598)
Takeda Shingen was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the Sengoku period. Known as the "Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful daimyō of the late Sengoku period and was cred…
Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyō (born 1521)
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Capr…
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù and Villa Farnese (born 1507)
John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, scholar, and physician to Edward VI a…
John Caius, English physician and academic (born 1510)
Saitō Uhyōe-Taihitsu Tatsuoki was a daimyō in Mino Province during the Sengoku period and the third generation lord of the Saitō clan. He was a son of Saitō Yoshitatsu, grandson o…
Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (born 1548)
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 927, when all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were united under the rule of Æthelstan, until 1 May 1707…
England and France sign an alliance against Spain in the treaty of Blois
The Martyrs of Gorkum were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious, who were hanged on 9 July 1572 in the town of Brielle by militant Dutch Calvinists during th…
Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs, in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
The Huguenots are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of burgomast…
The Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois, ostensibly to reconcile the feuding…
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is …
Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and critic (died 1637)
Pope Pius V, OP, born Antonio Ghislieri, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 January 1566 to his death, in May 1572.
Pope Pius V (born 1504)
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk,, was an English Roman Catholic nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlie…
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1536)
Jeanne d'Albret, also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
Jeanne d'Albret, Navarrese queen and Huguenot leader (born 1528)
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: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day…
Fakhr al-Din Ma'n, commonly known as Fakhr al-Din II or Fakhreddine II, was the paramount Druze emir of Mount Lebanon from the Ma'n dynasty, an Ottoman governor of Sidon-Beirut and…
Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze emir (died 1635)
Sigismund II Augustus was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lith…
Sigismund II Augustus, Polish king (born 1520)
Isaac ben Solomon Ashkenazi Luria, commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed …
Isaac Luria, Ottoman rabbi and mystic (born 1534)