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Year '1571' was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1571

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1571

★ January 11 - Austrian nobility are granted Freedom of religion.

★ January 23 - The Royal Exchange opens in London.

★ Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army under Devlet I Giray.

★ October 7 - Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

Undated

★ Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is founded in Horncastle.

★ Conquest of Cyprus is made by the Ottoman Empire. First Turkish colony moves into Cyprus.

Births

★ January 9 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)

★ January 27 - Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (died 1629)

★ February 15 - Michael Praetorius, German composer and writer on music (died 1621)

★ May 11 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (died 1637)

★ September 29 - Caravaggio, Venetian artist (died 1610)

★ October - Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1648)

★ October 18 - Wolfgang Ratke, German educationist (died 1635)

★ December 9 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)

★ December 27 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (died 1630)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Henry Ainsworth, English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622)

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★ William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642)

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★ Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (died 1638)

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★ Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henri IV of France (died 1599)

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★ Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1627)

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★ Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (died 1603)

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★ Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (died 1603)

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★ Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, Venetian cardinal (died 1623)

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★ Thomas Storer, English poet (died 1604)

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★ Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
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Deaths

★ January 9 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (born 1510)

★ February 12 - Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)

★ February 13 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (born 1500)

★ February 14 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (born 1517)

★ April 6 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician (born 1511)

★ June 1 - John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (born 1504)

★ July 15 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1514)

★ July 17 - Georg Fabricius, German poet (born 1516)

★ September 4 - Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (born 1516)

★ September 23 - John Jewel, English bishop (born 1522)

★ October 7 - Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III of Denmark (born 1511)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hans Asper, Swiss painter (born 1499)

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★ Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (born 1489)

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★ Joachim II, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1505)

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★ Titu Cusi, Incan ruler (born 1529)

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★ Mori Motonari, Japanese warlord (born 1497)

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★ Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman

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★ Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (born 1511)
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