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Year '1576' was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1576

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1576

January - June

★ 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.

July - December

★ 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.

Undated

★ 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.

★ Dartford Grammar School founded by William d'Aeth, Edward Gwyn and William Vaughn.

★ Sutton Valence School founded by William Lambe

Births

★ January 12 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar (died 1660)

★ March 31 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (died 1644)

★ May 27 - Caspar Schoppe, German controversialist and scholar (died 1649)

★ June 6 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant divine (died 1649)

★ October - Thomas Weelkes, English composer and organist (died 1626)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Ames, English Protestant philosopher (died 1633)

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★ Scipione Borghese, Italian art collector (died 1633)

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★ John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (died 1621)

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★ Enrico Caterino Davila, Italian historian (died 1631)

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★ Giulio Cesare la Galla, professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy (died 1624)

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★ Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (died 1646)

★ ''probable'' - Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1622)
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Deaths

★ January 19 - Hans Sachs, German ''Meistersinger'' (born 1494)

★ January 27 - Mizuno Nobumoto, Japanese shogun

★ February 10 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (born 1532)

★ March 5 - Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Spanish governor of the Netherlands (born 1528)

★ May 30 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese samurai

★ July 2 - Josias Simmler, Swiss theologian and classicist (born 1530)

★ August 15 - Bálint Bakfark, Hungarian composer and lutenist (born 1507)

★ August 27 - Titian, Italian painter (born c1489)

★ September 21 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler (b. 1502)

★ September 22 - Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (born 1541)

★ October 12 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1527)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Aloysius Lilius, Italian physician (born 1510)

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★ Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (born 1514)

★ ''probable''

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★ Anthony More, Dutch portrait painter (born 1512)

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★ Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1511)
: ''See also .''