1576

Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s

Years: 1571 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 - 1577 1578 1579 1580 1581

Events

• May 5 - Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after Monsieur, the Duc d'Anjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it). End of the Fifth War of Religion Once again, the Protestants are granted freedom of worship.
• October 3 - The "Spanish Terror". Mutinous Spanish troops capture and sack Antwerp.
• November 2 - Rudolf II becomes Holy Roman Emperor
• November 4 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• November 8 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unit to oppose Spanish occupation.
• The city Fredrikstad of Norway founded by king Frederick II of Denmark and Norway
• Beginning of the Seventh War of Religion in France.

Births

• William Ames - philosopher

Deaths

• October 12 - Emperor Maximilian II
• Don Luis de Requesens, Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands.

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