1573 Totally Explained

Year 1573 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1573

January - articles of Warsaw Confederation signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
July 6 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
July 12 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
August-October - Unsuccessful siege of Alkmaar by Alva
August 27 - Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi period. The Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japan begins.
November 15 - Santa Fe, Argentina is founded by Juan de Garay.
November - Alva resigns as Spanish Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in the Netherlands, and is succeeded by Luis de Requesens, who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.

Undated

End of the Fourth War of Religion in France.

Sarsa Dengel, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats the Oromo in a battle near Lake Zway.

Births

January 10 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (died 1624)

January 18 - Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (died 1621)

April 17 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died 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 (died 1650)

June - Juan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (died 1626)

July 15 - Inigo Jones, English architect (died 1652)

July 25 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)

October 7 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645)

December 6 - Odoardo Cardinal Farnese, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy (died 1626)

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Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (died 1647)
Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)
Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (died 1655)
Richard Johnson, English romance writer (died 1659)
Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (died 1628)
John Kendrick, English merchant (died 1624)
Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (died 1626)

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Deaths

March 13 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (born 1505)

May 13 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)

July - Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (born 1532)

July 29 - John Caius, English physician (born 1510)

August 14 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (born 1548)

September 16 - Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese warlord (born 1533)

September 23 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (born 1524)

October 27 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)

December 30 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (born 1504)

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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)
William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (born 1510)
Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (born 1503)
Wigbolt Ripperda, Mayor of Haarlem
Paul Skalic, Croatian encyclopedist (born 1534)
Reginald Wolfe, English printer
Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese warlord (born 1501)

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