1570

This article is about the year 1570. For the disc drive, see Commodore 1570.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1567 1568 1569 – 1570 – 1571 1572 1573

1570 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1570 MDLXX
Ab urbe condita	2323
Armenian calendar	1019 ԹՎ ՌԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6320
Bengali calendar	977
Berber calendar	2520
English Regnal year	12 Eliz. 1 – 13 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2114
Burmese calendar	932
Byzantine calendar	7078–7079
Chinese calendar	己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4266 or 4206     — to — 庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4267 or 4207
Coptic calendar	1286–1287
Discordian calendar	2736
Ethiopian calendar	1562–1563
Hebrew calendar	5330–5331
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1626–1627
- Shaka Samvat	1492–1493
- Kali Yuga	4671–4672
Holocene calendar	11570
Igbo calendar	570–571
Iranian calendar	948–949
Islamic calendar	977–978
Japanese calendar	Eiroku 13 / Genki 1 (元亀元年)
Julian calendar	1570 MDLXX
Korean calendar	3903
Minguo calendar	342 before ROC 民前342年
Thai solar calendar	2112–2113

1570 world map by Abraham Ortelius.

Year 1570 (MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 9 – Ivan the Terrible starts the Massacre of Novgorod.
• January 23 – The assassination of Scottish regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, by James Hamilton (the first recorded assassination using a firearm) throws Scotland into civil war.
• February 8 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs in Concepción, Chile.
• February 15 – Venus occults Jupiter; this will next happen in 1818.
• February 25 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis.
• May 20 – Abraham Ortelius publishes the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in Antwerp.
• June 10 – The Kingdom of Livonia is established.

July–December

• July 3 – Ottoman conquest of Cyprus begins.
• July 14 – Pope Pius V issues Quo primum, promulgating the 1570 edition of the Roman Missal.
• July 30 – The Sengoku period nihongo Battle of Anegawa 姉川の戦い Ane-gawa no Tatakai occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans.
• 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.

Date unknown

• Spanish conquistador Juan de Salcedo in the service of Miguel López de Legazpi begins conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila.
• Construction of the original Catedral Nuestra Señora de La Asunción, the oldest church in Venezuela, begins.
• Whitechapel Bell Foundry known to be in existence in London. By the early 21st century it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.
• Andrea Palladio publishes I quattro libri dell'architettura in Venice.
• The Andean population of Peru reaches 1.3 million.

Births

• January 22 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
• February – Henry Balnaves, Scottish politician and religious reformer (b. 1512)
• 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 Aytoun, Scottish poet (d. 1638)
  • John Cooper, English composer and lutenist (d. 1626)
  • John Farmer, English composer (d. c.1601)
  • Simon Grahame, Scottish-born 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)

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 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
• October 20 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
• November – Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (b. 1539)
• November 27 – Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486)
• date unknown
  • François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (b. 1496)
  • Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1501)
  • Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (b. 1504)
  • Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist