1571

This article is about the year 1571. For the number, see 1571 (number). For the BT calling features service, see 1-5-7-1.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1568 1569 1570 – 1571 – 1572 1573 1574

1571 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1571 MDLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2324
Armenian calendar	1020 ԹՎ ՌԻ
Assyrian calendar	6321
Bengali calendar	978
Berber calendar	2521
English Regnal year	13 Eliz. 1 – 14 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2115
Burmese calendar	933
Byzantine calendar	7079–7080
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4267 or 4207     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4268 or 4208
Coptic calendar	1287–1288
Discordian calendar	2737
Ethiopian calendar	1563–1564
Hebrew calendar	5331–5332
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1627–1628
- Shaka Samvat	1493–1494
- Kali Yuga	4672–4673
Holocene calendar	11571
Igbo calendar	571–572
Iranian calendar	949–950
Islamic calendar	978–979
Japanese calendar	Genki 2 (元亀２年)
Julian calendar	1571 MDLXXI
Korean calendar	3904
Minguo calendar	341 before ROC 民前341年
Thai solar calendar	2113–2114

Year 1571 (MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 11 – The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.
• January 23 – The Royal Exchange opens in London, England.
• May 24 – Fire of Moscow: Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army under Devlet I Giray.
• June 3 – Following conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila, Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi makes Manila a city and the capital of the Philippines.
• June 25 – Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire, England.
• June 27 – Establishment of Jesus College "within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation" in England by Welsh cleric and lawyer Hugh Price.

July–December

• July 25 – St Olave's Grammar School is founded in Tooley Street, London.
• August 1 – Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded by the surrender of Famagusta. Cyprus is established as an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire and the first Turkish colony moves into the island.
• August 29 – Foundation of Liliw, Laguna, Philippines, by Gat Tayaw, followers and residents as a municipality of Laguna.
• September 28 – The House of Commons of England introduces the first pro forma bill, symbolizing its authority over its own affairs.

Battle of Lepanto, 1571

• October 7 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

Date unknown

• Using mercury in the silver extraction process dramatically increases the output of the Potosí mine; thus begins the great silver flow that links the New and Old Worlds.

Births

Johannes Kepler

• January 9 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, French soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
• January 27 – Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (d. 1629)
• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer and writer on music (d. 1621)
• May 11 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
• September 29 – Caravaggio, Venetian artist (d. 1610)
• October 18 – Wolfgang Ratke, German educationist (d. 1635)
• December 9 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
• December 27 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
• date unknown
  • Henry Ainsworth, English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (d. 1622)
  • William Bedell, Anglican churchman (d. 1642)
  • Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (d. 1638)
  • Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1627)
  • Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (d. 1603)
  • Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
  • Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, Venetian cardinal (d. 1623)
  • Thomas Storer, English poet (d. 1604)
  • Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
  • Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter (d. 1638)

Deaths

• January 3 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• January 9 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• February 12 – Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
• February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
• February 14 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
• March 6 – Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (b. 1489)
• March 21 – Hans Asper, Swiss painter (b. 1499)
• April 6 – John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician (b. 1511)
• May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (b. 1511)
• June 1 – John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (b. 1504)
• July 6 – Mōri Motonari, Japanese warlord (b. 1497)
• July 15 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
• July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet (b. 1516)
• September 4 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (b. 1516)
• October 7 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)
• date unknown
  • Titu Cusi, Incan ruler (b. 1529)
  • Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman