1576 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1576?
- January 20, 1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
- February 5, 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
- May 1, 1576 – Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- July 11, 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
- August 8, 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
- November 4, 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
- November 8, 1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
Who Were Born In The Year 1576?
- January 12, 1576 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660)
- March 31, 1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)
- May 27, 1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
- June 6, 1576 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
- October 7, 1576 – John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
- October 12, 1576 – Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)
- November 17, 1576 – Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d. 1628)
- November 27, 1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638)
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