1573

Year '1573' was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1573

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1573

★ January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.

★ July 6 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

★ July 12 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.

★ August-October - Unsuccessful siege of Alkmaar by Alva

★ August 27 - Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi period. The Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japan begins.

★ November 15 - Santa Fe, Argentina is founded by Juan de Garay.

★ November - Alva resigns as Spanish Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in the Netherlands, and is succeeded by Luis de Requesens, who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.

Undated

★ End of the Fourth War of Religion in France.

★ Sarsa Dengel, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats the Oromo in a battle near Lake Zway.

Births

★ January 10 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (died 1624)

★ January 18 - Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (died 1621)

★ April 17 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died 1651)

★ April 26 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)

★ April 28 - Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, natural son of Charles IX of France (died 1650)

★ June - Juan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (died 1626)

★ July 15 - Inigo Jones, English architect (died 1652)

★ July 25 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)

★ October 7 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645)

★ December 6 - Odoardo Cardinal Farnese, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy (died 1626)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (died 1647)

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★ Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)

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★ Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (died 1655)

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★ Richard Johnson, English romance writer (died 1659)

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★ Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (died 1628)

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★ John Kendrick, English merchant (died 1624)

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★ Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (died 1626)
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Deaths

★ March 13 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (born 1505)

★ May 13 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)

★ July - Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532)

★ July 29 - John Caius, English physician (born 1510)

★ August 14 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (born 1548)

★ September 16 - Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese warlord (born 1533)

★ September 23 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (born 1524)

★ October 27 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)

★ December 30 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)

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★ William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (born 1510)

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★ Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (born 1503)

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★ Wigbolt Ripperda, Mayor of Haarlem

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★ Paul Skalic, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)

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★ Reginald Wolfe, English printer

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★ Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese warlord (born 1501)
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