1575 In The Captaincy General Of Chile

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Year 1575 ( MDLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

* January 21 – Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music, to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
* February 8 – William I of Orange founds Leiden University.
* February 13 – Henry III of France is crowned at Reims.
* February 14 – Henry III of France marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
* March 3 – Battle of Tukaroi: The Mughal Empire decisively defeats the Karrani dynasty of Bengal.
* June 24 – William I of Orange marries Charlotte of Bourbon.
* June 28 – Battle of Nagashino: Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in Japan's first ''modern'' battle.

July–December

* July 7 – Raid of the Redeswire: Sir John Carmichael defeats Sir John Forster, in the last battle between England and Scotland.
* July 26 – Edmund Grindal succeeds Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* August 5 – Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
* October 10 – Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.
* October 22 – The city of ''Villa de la Asunción'' (today Aguascalientes) is founded in New Spain, by permission from Philip II of Spain.
* December 16 – An earthquake hits Valdivia.

Date unknown

* Russians occupy Pernau in western Estonia, and the fortress of Weissenstein.
* The seat of the Audiencia Real in Chile moves from Concepción to Santiago.
* Abraham Ortelius becomes a geographer to Philip II of Spain.
* The bubonic plague decimates Venice.
* Captains of vessels flying the Spanish flag are legally required to maintain a logbook.

Births

* January – Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (d. 1591)
* January 22 – Louis III, Cardinal of Guise (d. 1621)
* c. February 3 – Bernard of Wąbrzeźno, Polish Catholic priest and Benedictine monk (d. 1603)
* February 4 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
* February 15 – Louis Gunther of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Katzenelnbogen (d. 1604)
* February 16 – Richard Carpenter, English priest and theologian (d. 1625)
* February 21 – Marten Pepijn)
* February 27
** John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1590–1616) (d. 1616)
** Anna of Holstein-Gottorp, countess consort of East Frisia (d. 1610)
* April 18 – Frederick Magnus, Count of Erbach-Fürstenau (1606–1618) (d. 1618)
* April 21 – Francesco Molin, Doge of Venice (d. 1655)
* April 26 – Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
* May 20 – Robert Heath, English judge and politician (d. 1649)
* May 30 – Diego Salcedo, Spanish bishop (d. 1644)
* June 15 – Lelio Biscia, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1638)
* June 24 – William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre, English peer and MP (d. 1637)
* June 26 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
* July 2 – Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby (d. 1627)
* July 11 – Thomas Berkeley, English politician (d. 1611)
* July 14 – Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau, German prince (d. 1653)
* July 28 – Fernando de Valdés y Llanos, Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. 1639)
* July 31 – Simon Steward, English politician (d. 1632)
* August 14 – Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
* August 15 – Diego, Prince of Asturias, Portuguese prince (d. 1582)
* August 18 – Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1643)
* August 24 – William Burton, British antiquarian (d. 1645)
* November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
* November 26 – John Augustus, Count Palatine of Lützelstein, German count (d. 1611)
* December 4 – The Nun of Monza, Italian nun (d. 1650)
* December 18 – Michelagnolo Galilei, Italian lutenist and composer (d. 1631)
* ''date unknown''
** Jakob Böhme, German mystic (d. 1624)
** David Calderwood, Scottish divine and historian (d. 1650)
** Concino Concini, 3rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1617)
** Anna Kostka, Polish noblewoman (d. 1635)
** Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (d. 1645)
** William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (d. 1622)
** Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (d. 1615)
** Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (d. 1626)
** Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (d. 1608)
* ''probable''
** Vittoria Aleotti, Italian composer (d. c. 1620)
** Giambattista Basile, Italian poet (d. 1632)
** Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet (d. 1633)
** Clemente Tabone, Maltese landowner and militia member (d. 1665)

Deaths

* January 4 – Sidonie of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (b. 1518)
* January 14 – Barbara Uthmann, German businessperson (b. 1514)
* January 22 – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (b. 1516)
* January 29 – Hernando de Aragón, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1498)
* February 9 – Karl Friedrich of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, heir apparent of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (b. 1555)
* February 20 – Maria of Jever, last ruler of the Lordship of Jever (b. 1500)
* February 21 – Claude of Valois, Duchess consort of Lorraine and French princess (b. 1547)
* March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
* March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (b. 1527)
* March 17 – Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (b. 1525)
* March 24 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born Jewish rabbi. Author of the book " Shulchan Aruch" (b. 1488)
* May 17 – Matthew Parker, English Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1504)
* May 28 – Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1522)
* June 3 – Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico (b. c. 1539)
* June 7 – Sir George Heron, English politician
* June 28 – Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai
* June 29
** Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai
** Hara Masatane, Japanese samurai (b. 1531)
** Naito Masatoyo, Japanese samurai (b. 1522)
** Sanada Nobutsuna, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
** Takeda Nobuzane, Japanese daimyō
** Yamagata Masakage, Japanese samurai (b. 1524)
* July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (b. 1505)
* July 29 – Jon Simonssøn, Norwegian humanist (b. 1512)
* August 2 – Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (b. 1537)
* September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
* September 24 – Anna of Oldenburg, Regent of East Frisia (b. 1501)
* October 17 – Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1511)
* October 20 – Kaspar Eberhard, German theologian (b. 1523)
* October 24 – Peder Oxe, Danish finance minister (b. 1520)
* November 2 – Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German princess (b. 1529)
* December 1 – Diego Andrada de Payva, Portuguese theologian (b. 1528)
* December 23 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese retainer (b. 1531)
* December 31 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
* ''date unknown''
** Constantio Varoli, Italian anatomist (b. 1543)
** Isabel de Josa, Catalan writer (b. 1508)

In fiction

* The conclusion of the events of the film '' Kagemusha'' by Akira Kurosawa takes place in this year.

References

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