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1570 world map of Abraham Ortelius

Year 1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1570

• 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 15 - Venus occulted Jupiter, happened next 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.
• 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.

Undated

• The Kingdom of Livonia is established.
• The Andean population of Peru reaches 1.3 million.
• The Ottomans conquer Cyprus.

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 Ayton, Scottish poet (d. 1638)
  • John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (d. 1626)
  • John Farmer, English composer (d. 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)

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

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People of the year 1570 at Familypedia

15 people were born in 1570

7 children were born to the 5 women born in 1570

1 people died in 1570

261 people lived in 1570

Events of the year 1570 at Familypedia

10 people were married in 1570.

There were 0 military battles in 1570.