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1573
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1573 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1573
- January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
- January 25 - Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
- January 28 - Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt against the oppressive nobility, takes place in Croatia; revolt quelled violently by february 15; Matija Gubec, leader of the rebellion is publicly executed in Zagreb.
- February-March - Siege of Noda, in Japan.
- 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.
- September 8-September 16 - Siege of Hikida, Siege of Ichijō ga dani in Japan:Asakura clan was eliminated by Oda Nobunaga.
- September 22-September 26 - Siege of Odani in Japan:Azai clan was eliminated by Oda Nobunaga.
- 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.
Queen Elizabeth's School for Boys, Barnet, England, is formed
Undated
- End of the Fourth War of Religion in France.
- Sarsa Dengel, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats the Oromo in a battle near Lake Zway.
- The first Spanish galleon laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China lands at Manila in the Philippines. This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China that would trump that of the Portuguese, the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver. Most of the silver entering China came from what is now Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru in the New World.
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
- Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (died 1647)
- Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)
- Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (died 1655)
- Richard Johnson, English romance writer (died 1659)
- Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (died 1628)
- John Kendrick, English merchant (died 1624)
- Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (died 1626)
- See also :Category: 1573 births.
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 16 - Wigbolt Ripperda, Mayor of Haarlem
- July 29 - John Caius, English physician (born 1510)
- August 14 - Saitō 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
- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)
- William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (born 1510)
- Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (born 1503)
- Paul Skalic, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)
- Reginald Wolfe, English printer
- Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese warlord (born 1501)
- See also :Category: 1573 deaths.
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