1571

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s 1550s 1560s – 1570s – 1580s 1590s 1600s
Years:	1568 1569 1570 – 1571 – 1572 1573 1574

1571 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1571 (MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1571

January 11 – The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.
January 23 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
June 27 – Jesus College, Oxford was founded by Elizabeth I.
October 7 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army under Devlet I Giray.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is founded in Horncastle.
Saint Olave's Grammar School is founded in Tooley Street, London.
Cyprus is conquered by the Ottoman Empire; the first Turkish colony moves into Cyprus.
Spanish silver mines open in Latin America.
The Spanish occupy Manila, Philippines. Thus began the great silver flow that linked the New and Old Worlds.
Idris Alooma starts to rule the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
The British House of Commons introduces the pro forma bill^[1].

January 9 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
January 27 – Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (d. 1629)
February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer and writer on music (d. 1621)
May 11 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
September 29 – Caravaggio, Venetian artist (d. 1610)
October – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (d. 1648)
October 18 – Wolfgang Ratke, German educationist (d. 1635)
December 9 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
December 27 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
date unknown
- Henry Ainsworth, English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (d. 1622)
- William Bedell, Anglican churchman (d. 1642)
- Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (d. 1638)
- Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henry IV of France (d. 1599)
- Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1627)
- Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (d. 1603)
- Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
- Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, Venetian cardinal (d. 1623)
- Thomas Storer, English poet (d. 1604)
- Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)

January 3 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
January 9 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
February 12 – Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
February 14 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
March 21 – Hans Asper, Swiss painter (b. 1499)
April 6 – John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician (b. 1511)
June 1 – John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (b. 1504)
July 15 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet (b. 1516)
September 4 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (b. 1516)
October 7 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)
date unknown
- Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (b. 1489)
- Titu Cusi, Incan ruler (b. 1529)
- Mori Motonari, Japanese warlord (b. 1497)
- Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman
- Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (b. 1511)