1570
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s |
| Years: | 1567 1568 1569 - 1570 - 1571 1572 1573 |
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Year 1570 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1570
- January 9 - Ivan the Terrible starts the Massacre of Novgorod.
- January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
- February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis.
- May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
- August 8 - The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.
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- The Kingdom of Livonia is established.
- The Andean population of Peru reaches 1.3 million.
- The Ottomans conquer Cyprus.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1570 MDLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2323 |
| Armenian calendar | 1019 ԹՎ ՌԺԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -274 – -273 |
| Berber calendar | 2520 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2114 |
| Burmese calendar | 932 |
| Chinese calendar | 4206/4266-11-25 (己巳年十一月廿五日) — to —
4207/4267-12-5(庚午年十二月初五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1286 – 1287 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1562 – 1563 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5330 – 5331 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1625 – 1626 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1492 – 1493 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4671 – 4672 |
| Holocene calendar | 11570 |
| Iranian calendar | 948 – 949 |
| Islamic calendar | 977 – 978 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 13Genki 1 (元亀元年) |
| Korean calendar | 3903 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2113 |
- January 22 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
- April 13 - Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- June 13 - Paul Peuerl, German organist (d. 1625)
- October 4 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (d. 1637)
- November 28 - James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)
- date unknown
- Diego Aduarte, Prior of Manila (d. 1637)
- Robert Ayton, Scottish poet (d. 1638)
- John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (d. 1626)
- John Farmer, English composer (d. 1601)
- Simon Grahame, English adventurer (d. 1614)
- Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese daimyo (d. 1612)
- Hans Lippershey, Dutch lensmaker (d. 1619)
- Asprilio Pacelli, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1623)
- Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (d. 1655)
- Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1630)
- John Smyth, English Baptist minister (d. 1612)
- Chief Powhatan, Algonquin chief (d. 1620)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. 1510)
- January 19 - Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (b. 1495)
- January 23 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) (b. c.1531)
- July 1 - Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1534)
- July 3 - Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (executed) (b. c. 1500)
- July 25 - Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat
- October 1 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
- October 18 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
- October 20 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
- date unknown
- François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (b. 1496)
- Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (b. 1539)
- Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1501)
- Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (b. 1504)
- Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist
