Explore 175 historical events from 1570–1579.
Francis Borgia, was a Spanish Jesuit priest. The great-grandson of both Pope Alexander VI and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, he was Duke of Gandía and a grandee of Spain. After the d…
Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish priest and saint, 3rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (born 1510)
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby was an English nobleman and politician. He succeeded his father as Lord of Mann until his death, and then was succeeded by his son.
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1508)
The Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War, also known as the War of Cyprus, was fought between 1570 and 1573. It was waged between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, the latter j…
The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk,, was an English nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her r…
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of…
Don Miguel López de Legazpi, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish and Basque conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in…
Miguel López de Legazpi conquers Manila for Spain, modern day capital of the Philippines
The encomienda was a 16th-century Spanish labour system that rewarded Spain's conquistadors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. In theory, the conquerors would prov…
La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines, is founded by the Spaniards as one of the…
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V and led by th…
The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.
Niwa Nagashige was a Japanese daimyō who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and married the 5th daughter of Oda Nobunaga. He took part in his first…
Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (died 1637)
Sir Thomas Mun was an English writer on economics and is often referred to as the last of the early mercantilists. Most notably, he is known for serving as the director of the East…
Thomas Mun, English writer on economics (died 1641)
Thomas Lupo was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the …
Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (died 1627)
Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformed theologian, evangelist and Protestant reformer.
Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1511)
John Story was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament. Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducte…
John Story, English martyr (born 1504)
Shimazu Takahisa , a son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyō during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan.
Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)
Georg Fabricius was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance.
Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox was a leader of the Catholic nobility in Scotland. He was the paternal grandfather of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. He owned Temp…
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, English nobleman (born 1516)
John Jewel of Devon, England was Bishop of Salisbury from 1559 to 1571.
John Jewel, English bishop (born 1522)
Müezzinzade Ali Pasha was an Ottoman statesman and naval officer. He was the Grand Admiral in command of the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, where he was killed in action. …
Sufi Ali Pasha, Ottoman soldier and politician, Ottoman Governor of Egypt
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg was queen consort of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian III of Denmark. She was known to having wielded influence upon the affairs of state…
Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Danish queen consort of Christian III of Denmark (born 1511)
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign,…
Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of O
The Ottoman–Habsburg wars were fought from the 16th to the 18th centuries between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy, which was at times supported by the Kingdom of Hunga…
Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the…
Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways t…
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas
The Principality of Transylvania was a semi-independent state ruled by Hungarian princes. It existed as an Ottoman vassal state for the majority of the 16th and 17th centuries, ove…
The Principality of Transylvania is established after John II Zápolya renounces his claim as King of Hungary in the…
The Ajacán Mission was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to show Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans. The …
Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque.
Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (probable; (died 1630)