Major Events
- Feb 5 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
- Nov 4 Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp
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Born in 1576
- Jan 12 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer and historian, born in Haarlem (d. 1660)
- Mar 31 Louise Juliana of Nassau, countess consort of the Palatinate by marriage to Frederick IV, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, born in Delft, Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1644)
- May 27 Caspar Schoppe, German scholar and controversialist, born in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany (d. 1649)
- Jun 6 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman, born in Lucca, Republic of Lucca (now Italy) (d. 1649)
- Oct 7 John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
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Famous Weddings in 1576
- May 1 Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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