Explore 175 historical events from 1570–1579.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés was a Spanish admiral, explorer, and conquistador from Avilés, in Asturias, Spain. He is notable for planning the first regular trans-oceanic convoys, whic…
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish admiral and explorer, founded St. Augustine, Florida (born 1519)
Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery, Lord of Lorges and Ducey, was a French nobleman of Scottish extraction and captain of the Scots Guard of King Henry II of France. He is reme…
Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530)
Maarten van Heemskerck, also known as Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen, was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan …
Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (born 1498)
Guru Ram Das, sometimes spelled as Guru Ramdas, was the fourth of the ten Sikh gurus. He was born to a family based in Lahore. His birth name was Jetha, and he was orphaned at age …
Guru Ram Das (pictured) became the fourth of the Sikh gurus, the spiritual masters of Sikhism.
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer was a naval engagement fought on 26 May 1573, during the early stages of the Dutch War of Independence. It was fought on the waters of the Haarlemmerme…
The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Eighty Years' War
Córdoba is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about 700 km (435 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Pr…
Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine o…
French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
Klein Henszlein [Klaus Hanslein] was a German pirate active from 1560 to 1573 who raided shipping in the North Sea until his defeat and capture by a fleet from Hamburg. Taken back …
German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.
The siege of Alkmaar (1573) was a turning point in the Eighty Years' War.
The Spanish siege of Alkmaar ends with the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.
Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years' War during which he…
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died 1651)
Charles de Valois was an illegitimate son of Charles IX of France and Marie Touchet. He was count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and a memoirist.
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles IX (died 1650)
Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, was an English peer, ambassador and military officer.
Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (died 1629)
Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby was an English soldier. Outlawed after a killing, he regained favour and became a Knight of the Garter.
Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (died 1644)
Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry i…
Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652)
Christoph Scheiner was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.
Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)
Philip II, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin was from 1606 to 1618 the reigning duke of Pomerania-Stettin and is considered to be among of the most artistic of the Pomeranian dukes. He mar…
Philip II, duke of Pomerania-Stettin (died 1618)
Anne of Austria was Queen of Poland and Sweden and a Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the first consort of King Sigismund III Vasa.
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1598)
Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne was a Genevan-born physician who treated kings of France and England and advanced the theories of Paracelsus.
Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (died 1654)
William Laud was a bishop in the Church of England. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Charles I in 1633, Laud was a key advocate of Charles I's religious reforms; he was arrest…
William Laud, English archbishop and academic (died 1645)
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton,, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of the 1st Viscount Montagu. William Shakespe…
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (died 1624)
Takeda Shingen was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the Sengoku period. Known as the "Tiger of Kai", he was one of the most powerful daimyō of the late Sengoku period and was cred…
Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyō (born 1521)
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola, was one of the great Italian architects of 16th-century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Capr…
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù and Villa Farnese (born 1507)
John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, scholar, and physician to Edward VI a…
John Caius, English physician and academic (born 1510)