1575

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Template:C16 year in topic Year 1575 (MDLXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

January 21 – Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music, to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
February 8 – William I of Orange founds Leiden University.
February 11 – Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais arrives in southeastern Africa to colonize what is now Angola.<ref>"Luanda nasceu na ilha do cabo" ("Luanda was born on Cape Island", Jornal de Angola No. 17</ref>
February 13 – The formal coronation of Henry III as King of France takes place at the Reims Cathedral. Henry inherited the throne on May 30, 1574, upon the death of his older brother, Charles IX.<ref name="Crawford2010">Template:Cite book</ref> He marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.<ref name="Crawford2010"/>
March 3 – Battle of Tukaroi: The Mughal Empire decisively defeats the Karrani dynasty of Bengal. The battle took place near the village of Tukaroi in present-day Balasore District of Odisha.

April–June

April 2 – English privateer Gilbert Horseley and his crew sail into the Bay of Honduras in Central America and conduct three days of raids of Spanish settlements and ships.<ref>Documents concerning English voyages to the Spanish main, 1569-1580, ed. by Irene A. Wright (Hakluyt Society, 1932) p.97</ref>
April 6 – Antoine I de Gramont, Lord Sovereign of the Principality of Bidache in the French Pyrennees Mountains, promulgates a legal code for his people.
April 18 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma, returns to his capital at Pegu from Vientiane after installing Voravongsa I as the Burmese-appointed monarch of the Kingdom of Lan Xang (now Laos).<ref>Peter Simms and Sandra Simms, The Kingdoms of Laos: Six Hundred Years of History (Routledge, 2001) pp. 85–86</ref>
May 12 – KIng Henry III of France, who had been selected in 1573 by the nobles of Poland and Lithuania to be King of Poland as Henryk Walezy, is stripped of his Polish and Lithuanian titles after failing to return to Kraków by the deadline imposed by the Polish nobility.<ref>Daniel Stone, The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795 (University of Washington Press, 2001) pp. 120–121</ref>
May 24 – In an attempt to reform the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran missionaries meet with Jeremias II Tranos, the Ecumenical Patriarch, at his residence in Constantinople, and present him with a Greek translation of the Augsburg Confession.<ref>Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church (Penguin Books, 1993) p.94</ref> Jeremias sends the missionaries, Jakob Andreae and Martin Crusius, three rebuttals to define the objections he has to the Lutheran document, declaring the reasons why the Eastern Orthodoxy has no desire for reformation.
June 24 – William I of Orange marries Charlotte of Bourbon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
June 28 – Battle of Nagashino: Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsuyori in Japan's first modern battle.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

July–September

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
August 5 – Henry Sidney is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
September 22
- Paulo Dias de Novais becomes the first Portuguese Governor of Angola.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Ottoman forces led by Ferhad Pasha Sokolović defeat the Austrian Army, led by Herbard VIII von Auersperg, in the Battle of Budačka. Auersperg is decapitated and Ferhad Pasha leaves Croatia with the head as a trophy.
September 1 –As a result of the Eighty Years' War, the government of the Kingdom of Spain is in bankruptcy and stops paying its troops, beginning in March.<ref>María Antonia Garcés, Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) p.222</ref>
September 25 – At St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Rudolf of Habsburg, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, is crowned King of Bohemia by the Archbishop Antonín Brus of Mohelnice.
September 26 – Future Spanish author and playwright Miguel de Cervantes, then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate Arnaut Mami after an attack on the Spanish galley Sol off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.<ref>Donald P. McCrory, No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (Dover Publishing, 2006) pp.65-68</ref>

October–December

October 10 – Battle of Dormans: Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 22 – The city of Villa de la Asunción (today Aguascalientes) is founded in New Spain, by permission from Philip II of Spain.
November 8 – The Sejm of Poland meets in Warsaw to elect a new King of Poland after King Henryk has failed to return from France, and considers 11 candidates.
November 9 – Ferhad Pasha Sokolović returns to Constantinople in triumph with the head of General Auersperg as a trophy after his September 22 victory at Budecka.
November 22 – Portuguese navigator Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo departs from Mozambique on a mission for to map the coastline, completing the task on March 13.
December 12 – Under pressure from Papal nuncio Vincenzo Lauro when a majority of the Sejm has still not agreed on a candidate, the Primate of Poland, Jakub Uchański, declares Maximilian II new King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
December 16 – An earthquake hits Valdivia.