1575

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1572 1573 1574 – 1575 – 1576 1577 1578

1575 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1575 (MDLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1575 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 1575 in film

Events of 1575

• February 13 – Henry III of France is crowned at Reims.
• February 14 – Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
• June 28 – Battle of Nagashino: Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in Japan's first 'modern' battle.
• July 7 – Raid of the Redeswire: Sir John Carmichael defeats Sir John Forster. Last Battle between England and Scotland.
• August 5 – Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
• October 10 – Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
• December 15 – Stephen Báthory becomes king of Poland.
• December 16 – The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place.
• Russians occupy Pernau in Western Estonia and the fortress of Weissenstein.

Undated

• Edmund Grindal succeeds Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• William I of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon.
• Portugal founds the city of Luanda, Angola.
• William I of Orange founds the University of Leiden.
• Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
• Abraham Ortelius becomes geographer to Philip II of Spain.
• The bubonic plague decimates Venice.
• Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, writes about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China; in this year he writes about the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

Births

1575 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1575 MDLXXV
Ab urbe condita	2328
Armenian calendar	1024 ԹՎ ՌԻԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-269 – -268
Bengali calendar	982
Berber calendar	2525
Buddhist calendar	2119
Burmese calendar	937
Byzantine calendar	7083 – 7084
Chinese calendar	甲戌年十二月二十日 (4211/4271-12-20) — to — 乙亥年十一月三十日 (4212/4272-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1291 – 1292
Ethiopian calendar	1567 – 1568
Hebrew calendar	5335 – 5336
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1631 – 1632
- Shaka Samvat	1497 – 1498
- Kali Yuga	4676 – 4677
Holocene calendar	11575
Iranian calendar	953 – 954
Islamic calendar	982 – 983
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 3 (天正3年)
Korean calendar	3908
Thai solar calendar	2118

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  • Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (d. 1591)
  • Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples (d. 1624)
• February 4 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
• March 5 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
• May 30 – Diego Salcedo, Spanish bishop (d. 1644)
• August 14 – Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
• November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
• date unknown
  • Jakob Böhme, German mystic (d. 1624)
  • David Calderwood, Scottish divine and historian (d. 1650)
  • Anna Kostka, Polish noblewoman (d. 1635)
  • Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (d. 1645)
  • William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (d. 1622)
  • Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (d. 1615)
  • Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (d. 1626)
  • Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (d. 1608)
• probable
  • Giambattista Basile, Italian poet (d. 1632)
  • Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet (d. 1633)
  • Samuel Purchas, English travel writer (d. 1626)

See also Category: 1575 births.

Deaths

• February 21 – Claude of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France (b. 1547)
• March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
• March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (b. 1527)
• March 24 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
• May 17 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
• June 3 – Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico (b. c. 1539)
• June 7 – Sir George Heron, keeper of Redesdale, Sir John Forster's lieutenant, who was killed in the Raid of the Redeswire.
• July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (b. 1505)
• September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
• December 23 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese retainer (b. 1531)
• December 31 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
• date unknown
  • James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (b. 1516)
  • Takeda Nobukado, Japanese nobleman
  • Constantio Varoli, Italian anatomist (b. 1543)
  • Limahong, Chinese pirate

See also Category: 1575 deaths.

1575 in film

• The conclusion of the events of the film Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa takes place in 1575.