1574

Year '1574' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1574

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1574

★ February 23 - The fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins in France.

★ April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau. Louis is killed.

★ May 30 - On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.


★ June 10 - Manila gains cityhood.

★ August 30 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.

★ October 3 - The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.

Undated

★ Murad III succeeds ala lang Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Births

★ March 7 - John Wilbye, English composer (date of baptism) (died 1638)

★ May 6 - Pope Innocent X (died 1655)

★ June - Richard Barnfield, English poet (died 1627)

★ July 1 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and satirist (died 1656)

★ August 7 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (died 1649)

★ September - Thomas Gataker, English clergyman and theologian (died 1654)

★ September 6 - Luis Sotelo, Franciscan friar (died 1624)

★ October 14 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland (died 1619)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Day, English dramatist (died 1640)

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★ Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist (died 1637)

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★ Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1650)

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★ Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman (died 1634)

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★ Claudio Pari, Sicilian composer

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★ Feng Menglong, Chinese poet (died 1645)
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Deaths

★ January 30 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)

★ April 14 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (born 1538)

★ April 17 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (born 1500)

★ April 21 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1519)

★ April 30 - Joseph Boniface de La Molle, Provençale lover of Marguerite de Valois (born 1530)

★ May 14 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (born 1479)

★ May 30 - King Charles IX of France (born 1550)

★ June 26 - Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530)

★ June 27 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (born 1511)

★ September 17 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)

★ October 1 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)

★ November 28 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (born 1502)

★ December 12 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (born 1524)

★ December 26 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (born 1527)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (born 1520)

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★ Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (born 1516)

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★ Solomon Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (born 1510)

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★ Georg Joachim Rheticus, Hungarian cartographer and instrument maker (born 1514)

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★ Martin de Goiti, Spanish conquistador
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