1576 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
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 On ?
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)