Significant Events
- Feb 5 Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
- Nov 4 Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp
World Leaders in 1576
Elizabeth I
Queen of England and Ireland
Philip II
King of Spain
Famous People Born in 1576
- Jan 12 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian
- Mar 31 Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)
- May 17 Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
- May 27 Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
- Jun 6 Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1649)
Famous Weddings
- May 1 Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Girolamo Cardano