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| Gregorian calendar | 1570 MDLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2323 |
| Armenian calendar | 1019 ԹՎ ՌԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6320 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1491–1492 |
| 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 (Earth Snake) 4267 or 4060 — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4268 or 4061 |
| Coptic calendar | 1286–1287 |
| Discordian calendar | 2736 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1562–1563 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5330–5331 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1626–1627 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1491–1492 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4670–4671 |
| Holocene calendar | 11570 |
| Igbo calendar | 570–571 |
| Iranian calendar | 948–949 |
| Islamic calendar | 977–978 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 13 / Genki 1 (元亀元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1489–1490 |
| Julian calendar | 1570 MDLXX |
| Korean calendar | 3903 |
| Minguo calendar | 342 before ROC 民前342年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 102 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2112–2113 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 1696 or 1315 or 543 — to — 阳金马年 (male Iron-Horse) 1697 or 1316 or 544 |
Year 1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 9 – Ivan the Terrible starts the Massacre of Novgorod.
- January 23 – The assassination of Scottish regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, by James Hamilton (the first recorded assassination using a firearm) 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 publishes the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in Antwerp.
- June 10 – The Kingdom of Livonia is established.
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.
- July 30 – The Sengoku period nihongo Battle of Anegawa 姉川の戦い Ane-gawa no Tatakai occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans.
- 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.
Date unknown
- Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo in the service of Miguel López de Legazpi begins conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila.
- Construction of the original Catedral Nuestra Señora de La Asunción, the oldest church in Venezuela, begins.
- 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.
Births
- January 1
- Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Spouse of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (d. 1649)
- John Dackombe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1618)
- January 19 – Wolfgang Hirschbach, German legal scholar (d. 1620)
- January 22 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
- February – Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (b. 1512)
- March 25 – Henry Lennard, 12th Baron Dacre, English baron and politician (d. 1616)
- April 13 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- May 8 – Tamás Esterházy, Hungarian writer (d. 1616)
- May 22 – Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German duke (d. 1605)
- June 7 – Sultan Murad Mirza, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1599)
- June 13 – Paul Peuerl, German organist (d. 1625)
- August 10 – Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1587–1590) (d. 1590)
- August 21 – Christopher, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg, Co-ruler of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Harburg (1603–1606) (d. 1606)
- August 22 – Franz von Dietrichstein, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1636)
- August 31 – Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg, German noble (d. 1597)
- September 28 – Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1630)
- October 3 – George Coke, British bishop (d. 1646)
- October 4 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
- October 7
- Volkert Overlander, Dutch mayor (d. 1630)
- Jean Richardot the Younger, Belgian politician (d. 1614)
- November 1 – Phineas Pett, shipwright and a member of the Pett dynasty (d. 1647)
- November 15 – Francesco Curradi, Italian painter (d. 1661)
- November 20 – Giovanni Battista Agucchi, Italian churchman, Papal diplomat, and writer on art theory (d. 1632)
- November 26 – Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Ærø (1622–1633) (d. 1633)
- November 28 – James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
- December 7 – Richard Cecil, English politician (d. 1633)
- December 29 – Wilhelm Lamormaini, Luxembourgian theologian (d. 1648)
- 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, Scottish-born 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)
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 – Manuel 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