Major Events
- Jan 11 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian nobility freedom of religion
- Jan 23 Queen Elizabeth I of England opens Royal Exchange in London
- Mar 19 Spanish troops occupy Manila
- Mar 25 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England
- May 16 German astronomer Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
- May 19 Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founds Manilla in the Philippines
- May 25 Pope Pius V forms The Holy League to fight the Ottomans with other Catholic maritime states including Spain, Venice, Naples and Sicily
- Sep 4 Catholic rebellion in Scotland
- Oct 4 -13] Synod of Emden, Calvinist leaders establish the Dutch Reformed Church.
- Oct 7 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations formed by Pope Pius V destroy an Ottoman fleet in a significant loss off Western Greece
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Who Died in 1571
- Jan 3 Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1535-71), dies at 65
- Jan 9 Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
- Feb 12 Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
- Feb 14 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith and author (Perseus), dies at 70
- Feb 14 Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon and count of Beauvais, dies at 53
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