1574
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February 23 - The 5th
holy war against the
Huguenots begins in
France.
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April 14 -
Battle of Mookerheyde.
Spanish forces under
Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of
Louis of Nassau.
Louis is killed.
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May 30 - On the death of
King Charles IX of
France, he is succeeded by his brother King
Henry of Poland, who becomes King
Henry III of France. His mother,
Catherine de Medici, acts as
Regent until
Henry arrives from
Poland.
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October 3 - The city of
Leiden, besieged by the
Spanish, is relieved by a
Sea Beggar fleet under
Louis Boisot.
*
Murad III succeeds
Selim II as
Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire.
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March 7 -
John Wilbye, English composer (date of baptism)
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May 6 -
Pope Innocent X (died
1655)
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July 1 -
Joseph Hall, English bishop and satirist (died
1656)
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August 7 -
Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (died
1649)
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October 14 -
Anne of Denmark, queen of
James VI of Scotland (died
1619)
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Richard Barnfield, English poet (died
1627)
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John Day, English dramatist (died
1640)
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Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist (died
1637)
*
Thomas Gataker, English clergyman and theologian (died
1654)
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Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (died
1650)
*
Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman (died
1634)
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Claudio Pari, Sicilian composer
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Luis Sotelo, Franciscan friar
*
Feng Menglong, Chinese poet
See also :Category: 1574 births.*
January 30 -
Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b.
1502)
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April 14 -
Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (born
1538)
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April 17 -
Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born
1500)
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April 21 -
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born
1519)
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May 30 - King
Charles IX of France (born
1550)
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June 27 -
Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (born
1511)
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September 1 -
Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (born
1479)
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September 17 -
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b.
1519)
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October 1 -
Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b.
1498)
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November 28 -
Georg Major, German protestant theologian (born
1502)
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December 12 -
Selim II,
Ottoman Sultan (born
1524)
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December 26 -
Charles of Guise, French cardinal (born
1527)
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Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (born
1520)
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Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (born
1516)
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Solomon Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (born
1510)
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Joseph Boniface de La Molle, Provençale lover of
Marguerite de Valois (born
1530)
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Gabriel Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of
Henry II of France (born
1530)
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Matthew Parker,
Archbishop of Canterbury (born
1504)
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Georg Joachim Rheticus, Hungarian cartographer and instrument maker (born
1514)
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Martín de Goiti, Spanish conquistador
See also :Category: 1574 deaths.
