1576
*
May 5 -
Peace of Beaulieu or
Peace of Monsieur (after
Monsieur, the
Duc d'Anjou, brother of the
King, who negotiated it). End of the
Fifth War of Religion Once again, the Protestants are granted freedom of worship.
*
August 11 -
English navigator
Martin Frobisher, on his search for the
Northwest Passage, enters the
bay now named after him.
*
October 3 -
The Spanish Fury. Mutinous
Spanish troops capture and sack
Antwerp.
*
November 2 -
Rudolf II becomes
Holy Roman Emperor.
*
November 4 -
Eighty Years' War: In
Belgium,
Spain captures
Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
*
November 8 -
Eighty Years' War:
Pacification of Ghent - The
States-General of the
Netherlands meet and unite to oppose pillaging
Spanish mutinees.
*The city
Fredrikstad of
Norway founded by king
Frederick II of Denmark and Norway.
*Beginning of the
Seventh War of Religion in
France.
*An early example of
autobiography is written in English by
Thomas Wythorne.
*
January 12 -
Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar (died
1660)
*
May 27 -
Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist and scholar (died
1649)
*
June 6 -
Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant divine (died
1649)
*
October 7 -
John Marston, English writer (died
1634)
*
October 12 -
Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (died
1652)
*
November 17 -
Roque Gonzales, Paraguayan missionary (d.
1628)
*
November 27 -
Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (died
1638)
*
December 20 -
Saint John Sarkander,
Moravian priest (died
1620)
*
William Ames, English protestant philosopher (died
1633)
*
Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector (died
1633)
*
John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (died
1621)
*
Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician (died
1622)
*
Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died
1631)
*
Giulio Cesare la Galla, professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy (died
1624)
*
Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (died
1646)
*
Thomas Weelkes, English composer and organist (died
1626)
See also :Category: 1576 births.*
January 19 -
Hans Sachs, German
Meistersinger (born
1494)
*
February 10 -
Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (born
1532)
*
May 30 -
Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai
*
August 15 -
Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer and lutenist (born
1507)
*
August 27 -
Titian, Italian painter
*
September 21 -
Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b.
1502)
*
October 12 -
Emperor Maximilian II (born
1527)
*
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born
1541)
*
Aloysius Lilius, Italian physician (born
1510)
*
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (born
1527)
*
Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (born
1512)
*
Mizuno Nobumoto, Japanese shogun
*
Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Spanish governor of the Netherlands
*
Josias Simmler, Swiss theologian and classicist (born
1530)
*
Johann Stumpf, Swiss historian (born
1500)
*
Tahmasp I,
Shah of Persia*
Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (born
1511)
See also :Category: 1576 deaths.
