1570

Year '1570' was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1570

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1570

★ January 9 - Ivan the Terrible starts the Massacre of Novgorod.

★ January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.

★ February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull ''Regnans in Excelsis''.

★ May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.

★ August 8 - The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.

Undated

★ Kingdom of Livonia was established.

Births

★ January 22 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (died 1631)

★ April 13 - Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (died 1606)

★ June 13 - Paul Peuerl, German organist (died 1625)

★ October 4 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (died 1637)

★ November 28 - James Whitelocke, English judge (died 1632)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Diego Aduarte, Prior of Manila (died 1637)

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★ Robert Ayton, Scottish poet (died 1638)

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★ John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (died 1626)

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★ John Farmer, English composer (died 1601)

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★ Simon Grahame, English adventurer (died 1614)

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★ Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (died 1612)

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★ Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (died 1619)

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★ Asprilio Pacelli, Italian Baroque composer (died 1623)

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★ Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (died 1655)

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★ Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1630)

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★ John Smyth, English Baptist minister (died 1612)

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★ Chief Powhatan, Indian Chief from Alonquian tribe (died 1620)
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Deaths

★ January 8 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (born 1510)

★ January 23 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) (born c1531)

★ July 1 - Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (born 1534)

★ July 25 - Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat

★ October 1 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (born 1520)

★ October 18 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (born 1517)

★ October 20 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (born 1496)

★ November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (born 1496)

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★ Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)

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★ Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born 1539)

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★ Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (born 1501)

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★ Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (born 1500)

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★ Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (born 1504)

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★ Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist
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