1570 To 15791570x - Japan Hôjô Ujiyasu dies and is succeded by Ujimasa.
x - Japan First year of Genki
x - Francis Drake ?+ b.1540-d.1596 makes two highly profitable journey's to the West Indies. and 1571
x - The potato was introduced to Europe from South America.
jan 00 - Japan Takeda Shingen leads an army into Suruga Province.
jan 09 - Tsar Ivan the terrible ?+ kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod.
jan 23 - Scotland The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
feb 00 - Japan Takeda Shingen takes Hanzawa Castle from Ôhara Sukeyoshi.
feb 25 - Pope Pius V ?+ excommunicates Elizabeth, absolves her subjects from allegiance.
feb 28 - Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas.
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mar 04 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students.
mar 12 - Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies.
apr 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga visits Kyoto and prepares a campaign against Asakura Yoshikage.
apr 14 - Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits.
apr 24 - Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman.
may 00 - Japan Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu march against Asakura Yoshikage of Echizen; Nobunaga is betrayed by Asai Nagamasa, his brother-in-law and is forced to retreat.
may 10 - Czar Ivan IV ?+ becomes Protestant. re.List of Tsars
may 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
may 22 - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published.
jun 00 - Japan Takeda Shingen clashes with Hôjô and Imagawa troops in Suruga Province.
jul 03 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67.
jul 25 - Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed.
jul 30 - Japan Nobunaga and Tokugawa defeat the forces of the Asai and Asakura clans at Anegawa in Ômi; afterwards Nobunaga makes an effort to bring down the Asai's Odani Castle but withdraws after about a week.
aug 00 - Japan The Battle of Imayama: Ôtomo troops are defeated by a Ryûzôji army led by Nabeshima Naoshige. This victory allows Ryûzôji Takanobu to extend his power in Hizen.
aug 00 - Japan Nobunaga initiates hostilities with the Ishiyama Honganji.
aug 08 - France ?French Wars of Religion The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.
nov 01 - Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed.
dec 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga attacks the Nagashima monto.
1571x - Japan ?+ Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin face each other for the last time at the Tone River (Kozuke).
x - Japan Môri Motonari dies and is succeded by his grandson, Môri Terumoto
x - Japan Shimazu Takahisa dies.
x - Japan Nagasaki is established as a foreign trading post by the Portuguese.
x - Tatars raid Moscow.
jan 23 - Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London.
mar 19 - Spanish troops occupy Manila.
may 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga lays siege to the Nagashima Ikko stronghold in Ise.
may 19 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in the Phillipines.
aug 00 - Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu takes Nagashino (Mikawa) from Suganuma Sadayoshi.
sep 04 - Catholic coup in Scotland.
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sep 04 - Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered.
oct 07 - Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet. Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle.
oct 20 - Japan Oda Nobunaga destroys the Enryaku-Ji monastic complex on Mt. Hiei.
nov 24 - Jan Blahoslav, Czech bishop, dies at 48.
1572x - Carrier pigeons were first used in the Dutch War of Independence.
x - Tycho Brahe's ?+ supernova in Cassiopeia.
x - Gregory XIII ?+ becomes pope ?+ u.1585c0000_ re.List of Popes
jan 00 - Japan ?+ Takeda Shingen and the Hôjô make peace; the latter breaks off relations with the Uesugi.
feb 05 - Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out.
apr 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga defeats the remnants of the Rokkaku family in Ômi Province.
apr 21 - France & England sign anti-Spanish military covenant.
may 00 - Japan Ryûzôji Takanobu forces the surrender of Tsukushi Hirokado of Chikuzen.
may 01 - Pope Pius V ?+, Antonio Ghislieri, great-inquisiteur/Pope 1566-1572, dies.
jun 00 - Japan Shimazu Yoshihisa defeats Ito Yoshisuke at the Battle of Kizakihara in Hyûga province.
jun 02 - Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36.
jun 09 - Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland.
jun 09 - Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44.
jun 24 - 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged.
jul 09 - 19 Catholic priests hanged in Gorcum.
aug 18 - France ? Huguenot leaders attended the wedding of Henry III of Navarre l.Henri IV of France and Margaret de Valois in Paris, unaware that the bride's mother, Catherine de' Medici ?+, was planning to massacre the Huguenots less than a week later.
aug 22 - Failed assassination on admiral De Coligny.
aug 24 - France The Bartholomew's Day Massacre began. For the next two days, thousands of Huguenots were killed throughtout France. The massacre was most likely on the orders of Catherine de' Medici, the queen mother of France.
sep 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga makes an attack on Odani, the Asai's headquarters.
sep 30 - Francisco Borgia, theologist/saint, dies at 61.
oct 18 - Spanish troops attack Maastricht.
nov 00 - Japan Uesugi Kenshin clashes with rioting ikko-ikki in Etchû Province.
nov 00 - Japan Takeda Shingen leads his army into the Tokugawa domain.
1573feb 11 - Francis Drake ?+ b.1540-d.jan 26 1596 climbs a tree in Panama and becomes the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean.
may 03 - Japan Oda Nobunaga surrounds Kyoto and forces Ashikaga Yoshiaki to abandon his first attempt at rebellion.
may 13 - Japan Takeda Shingen dies and is succeded by Katsuyori.
jul 00 - Japan Nobunaga makes an unsuccessful attack on the Nagashima monto.
jul 29 - Spanish prince of Eboli, dies.
aug 07 - Francis Drakes ?'s b.1540-d.jan 26 1596 fleet returns to Plymouth.
aug 18 - Japan Nobunaga reduces Ashikaga Yoshiaki?s stronghold on the Uji River after the shogun rebels; Yoshiaki is then sent into exile-making him the 15th and last Ashikaga shogun.
sep 00 - Japan Nobunaga surrounds Asai Nagamasa in Odani and defeats an Asakura relief effort.
sep 16 - Japan Asakura Yoshikage commits suicide after Oda Nobunaga defeats his army and enters Echizen. Asai Nagamasa commits suicide in Odani soon afterwards.
1574feb 23 - France begins 5th holy war against Huguenots.
mar 00 - Japan Takeda Katsuyori captures Taketenjin Castle in Tôtômi from Tokugawa Ieyasu..
may 00 - Japan Ikko-ikki sieze power in Echizen.
may 07 - Giambattista Pamfili, Pope Innocent X ?+ r.1644-1655, is born.
may 30 - Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France.
jun 18 - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland.
jul 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga besieges Nagashima.
jul 00 - Japan Satomi Yoshitaka of Awa dies.
aug 00 - Japan Nobunaga blockades and sets fire to the main Nagashima fortress, killing around 20,000.
sep 13 - Turkish fleet recaptures Tunis.
1575x - Japan ?+ Kobayakawa Takakage and Ukita Naoie defeated Mimura Motochika of Bingp Province and force him to commit suicide.
may 00 - Japan Oda Nobunaga campaigns against the Miyoshi in Settsu Province.
jun 28 - Japan Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat Takeda Katsuyori at the Battle of Nagashino. 10,000 Takeda warriors are slain.
sep 00 - Japan The Oda defeat the Honganji's supporters in Echizen, which is given to Shibata Katsuie.
nov 08 - French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty.
1576x - Japan Oda Nobunaga begins a four-year siege of the Ishiyama Honganji and comes into conflict with the Môri. While the Honganji is blockaded, troops under Toyotomi (Hashiba) Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide are sent westward through the Chugoku region.
x - Japan Shibata Katsuie orders a 'sword hunt' in Echizen.
feb 03 - Henry of Navarre future Henry IV escapes from Paris.
feb 05 - Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours.
apr 00 - Japan April Nobunaga is defeated by the Môri in the 1st Battle of Kizugawaguchi - a naval contest off the coast of settsu.
may 23 - Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory.
jun 07 - Jakob Andreae, Martin Chemnitz, David Chytraeus and others completed the Torgau Book. The Torgau Book, based on Andreae's Six Christian Sermons, was eventually revised into the Bergen Book, which became a part of the Formula of Concord.
sep 21 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74.
oct 12 - Rudolf II succeeds Maximilian II as arch duke of Austria.
1577x - Alliance between England and Netherlands.
feb 06 - King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots.
may 28 - The last of the Lutheran Confessions, the Formula of Concord was issued. The Formula confessed the Scripture as the only rule of faith and dealt with various doctrinal controversies.
aug 17 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots.
aug 21 - The Lutherans signed the Formula of Concord at Gotha. The Formula confessed the Scripture as the only rule of faith and dealt with various doctrinal controversies.
sep 28 - Japan Matsunaga Hisahide revolts against Oda Nobunaga and is forced to commit suicide after he is besieged in Shigi Castle (Yamato).
oct 00 - Japan Uesugi Kenshin occupies Noto Province.
oct 25 - Pope Gregory XIII ?+ asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns.
nov 00 - Japan Uesugi Kenshin defeats Oda Nobunaga at the Battle of the Tedorigawa in Kaga.
nov 15 - Francis Drake ?+ b.1540-d.1596 leaves from England to sail around the world in the Golden Hind.
dec 00 - Japan Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi attacks Kôzuki Castle in Harima Province.
dec 13 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world on the Pelican l.Golden Hind.
dec 18 - Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32.
1578jan 31 - Battle of Gembloers. jun 11 - England grants Sir Humphrey Gilbert a patent to explore & colonize US.
aug 02 - Battle of Rijmenam.
aug 04 - Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24.
aug 04 - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed.
oct 10 - Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen.
nov 08 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51.
1579jan 07 - England signs an offensive & defensive alliance with Netherland.
jan 25 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic.
mar 05 - Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht.
mar 06 - Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht.
mar 23 - Friesland joins Union of Utrecht.
apr 11 - Venlo joins Union of Utrecht.
may 07 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands.
jun 17 - Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California, possible near the San Francisco Bay.
jun 17 - Anti-English uprising in Ireland.
jul 26 - Francis Drake leaves america west coast to cross Pacific Ocean.
jul 28 - Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid. jul 29 - Antwerp request union with of Utrecht.
jul 29 - King Philip II arrests plotters Antonio Perez & princess van Eboli.
aug 08 - Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory.
aug 17 - Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I.
sep 13 - Breda forms Union of Utrecht.
oct 07 - English royal marriage of queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou.
oct 24 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 51.
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