1573
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Year 1573 (MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
- Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, England, is formed.
- The Fourth War of Religion begins 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 will 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 comes from what is now Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru in the New World.
- Wanli starts to rule in China.
- The Portuguese are expelled from the Maldives.
- Turkish New Hammam (Török Fürdö) built in Çorum Province.
Births
- January 10 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
- January 18 – Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (d. 1621)
- April 17 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 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 (d. 1650)
- June – Juan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (d. 1626)
- July 15 – Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
- July 25 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
- October 7 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
- November 29 – Johannes Canuti Lenaeus, archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1669)
- December 6 – Odoardo Farnese, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy (d. 1626)
- date unknown
Deaths
- March 13 – Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1505)
- May 13 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
- July – Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (b. 1532)
- July 16 – Wigbolt Ripperda, Mayor of Haarlem
- July 29 – John Caius, English physician (b. 1510)
- August 14 – Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
- September 16 – Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese warlord (b. 1533)
- September 23 – Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
- October 27 – Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
- November 9 – Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (b. 1503)
- December 30 – Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (b. 1504)
- date unknown
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