Major Events
- Feb 6 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of the Huguenots
- Feb 12 Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
- Jul 24 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
- Jul 24 Treason of Don Juan in Brussels
- Aug 17 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
- Oct 25 Pope Gregory XIII give a brief to Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Annibale Zoilo Romano to reform ecclesiastical hymns
- Nov 23 Water Geuzen under Captain Slope enters Amsterdam
- Dec 13 Francis Drake sets sail from England on an epic three year circumnavigation of the world aboard the 'Pelican' (later renamed the 'Golden Hind')
- Dec 16 Danzig rebellion ends in a compromise between the city's nobility and Polish King Stephen Báthory, after the King restored and recognized the city's economic and religious privileges
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Who Died in 1577
- Feb 26 Erik XIV, King of Sweden (1560-69), dies of arsenic poisoning at 43
- May 5 Viglius [Wigle Aytta van Zwichem], Dutch statesman and jurist (minister to Charles V and Philip II), dies at 69
- Aug 12 Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (b. 1513)
- Oct 7 George Gascoigne, English poet
- Nov 19 Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
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