1570
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This article is about the year 1570. For the disc drive, see Commodore 1570.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1540s 1550s 1560s – 1570s – 1580s 1590s 1600s |
| Years: | 1567 1568 1569 – 1570 – 1571 1572 1573 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1570 MDLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2323 |
| Armenian calendar | 1019 ԹՎ ՌԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6320 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -274–-273 |
| Bengali calendar | 977 |
| Berber calendar | 2520 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Eliz. 1 – 13 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2114 |
| Burmese calendar | 932 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7078–7079 |
| Chinese calendar | 己巳年十一月廿五日 (4206/4266-11-25) — to —
庚午年十二月初五日(4207/4267-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar | 1286–1287 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1562–1563 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5330–5331 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1626–1627 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1492–1493 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4671–4672 |
| Holocene calendar | 11570 |
| Iranian calendar | 948–949 |
| Islamic calendar | 977–978 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 13Genki 1 (元亀元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3903 |
| Minguo calendar | 342 before ROC 民前342年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2113 |
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Year 1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–June
- January 9 – Ivan the Terrible starts the Massacre of Novgorod.
- January 23 – The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
- February 8 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs in Concepción, Chile.
- February 15 – Venus occults Jupiter; this will next happen in 1818.
- February 25 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis.
- May 20 – Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
- June 10 – The Kingdom of Livonia is established.
[edit] July–December
- July 3 – Ottoman conquest of Cyprus begins.
- July 14 – Pope Pius V issues Quo Primum, promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.
- August 8 – The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.
[edit] Date unknown
- Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo in the service of Miguel López de Legazpi begins conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila.
- Whitechapel Bell Foundry known to be in existence in London. By the early 21st century it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.
- Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura in Venice.
- The Andean population of Peru reaches 1.3 million.
[edit] Births
- January 22 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
- April 13 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- June 13 – Paul Peuerl, German organist (d. 1625)
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
- November 28 – James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
- date unknown
- Diego Aduarte, Prior of Manila (d. 1637)
- Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet (d. 1638)
- John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (d. 1626)
- John Farmer, English composer (d. c.1601)
- Simon Grahame, English adventurer (d. 1614)
- Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (d. 1612)
- Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (d. 1619)
- Asprilio Pacelli, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1623)
- Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (d. 1655)
- Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630)
- John Smyth, English Baptist minister (d. 1612)
- Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief (d. 1620)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 – Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. 1510)
- January 19 – Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (b. 1495)
- January 23 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) (b. c.1531)
- July 1 – Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1534)
- July 3 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (executed) (b. c. 1500)
- July 25 – Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat
- October 1 – Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
- October 18 – Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
- October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (b. 1539)
- November 27 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
- date unknown
- François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (b. 1496)
- Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1501)
- Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (b. 1504)
- Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist
