Explore 133 historical events from 1570–1579.
Thomas Lupo was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the …
Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (died 1627)
Pierre Viret was a Swiss Reformed theologian, evangelist and Protestant reformer.
Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1511)
John Story was an English Roman Catholic martyr and Member of Parliament. Story escaped to Flanders in 1563, but seven years later he was lured aboard a boat in Antwerp and abducte…
John Story, English martyr (born 1504)
Shimazu Takahisa , a son of Shimazu Tadayoshi, was a daimyō during Japan's Sengoku period. He was the fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan.
Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)
Georg Fabricius was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance.
Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (born 1516)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox was a leader of the Catholic nobility in Scotland. He was the paternal grandfather of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. He owned Temp…
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, English nobleman (born 1516)
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign,…
Queen Elizabeth I issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of O
Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Combining science, aesthetics and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways t…
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas
The Principality of Transylvania was a semi-independent state ruled by Hungarian princes. It existed as an Ottoman vassal state for the majority of the 16th and 17th centuries, ove…
The Principality of Transylvania is established after John II Zápolya renounces his claim as King of Hungary in the…
The Ajacán Mission was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to show Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans. The …
Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque.
Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (probable; (died 1630)
Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein, was an Austrian nobleman and cardinal, member of an ancient House of Dietrichstein, was the 1st Prince of Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Olomouc, Gove…
Franz von Dietrichstein, Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (died 1636)
Aonio Paleario or Aonius Palearius was an Italian Christian termed a reformer.
Aonio Paleario, Italian academic and reformer (born 1500)