1573

Year 1573 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1573

* January - Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.
* January 25 - Japan - Battle of Mikatagahara: Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
* January 28 - The Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt breaks out against the oppressive nobility; the revolt is quelled violently by February 15; Matija Gubec, leader of the rebellion, is publicly executed in Zagreb.
* February-March - The Siege of Noda occurs in Japan.
* July 6 - Córdoba, Argentina is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
* July 12 - Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva capture Haarlem after a seven month siege.
* August-October - Alva unsuccessfully besieges Alkmaar.
* August 27 - Oda Nobunaga drives the 15th Ashikaga shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto, effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate and historically ending the Muromachi period. The Azuchi-Momoyama period of Japan begins.
* September 8-September 16 - Siege of Hikida, Siege of Ichijō ga dani in Japan: The Asakura clan is eliminated by Oda Nobunaga.
* September 22-September 26 - Japan - Siege of Odani: The Azai clan is eliminated by Oda Nobunaga.
* October 8 Spaniards abandon siege on the city of Alkmaar in North Holland
* November 15 - Santa Fe, Argentina is founded by Juan de Garay.
* November - Alva resigns as Spanish Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in the Netherlands, and is succeeded by Luis de Requesens, who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.

Undated

* Queen Elizabeth's School for Boys, Barnet, England, is formed.
* The Fourth War of Religion begins in France.
* Sarsa Dengel, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats the Oromo in a battle near Lake Zway.
* The first Spanish galleon, laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China, lands at Manila in the Philippines. This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China that will trump that of the Portuguese, the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver. Most of the silver entering China comes from what is now Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru in the New World.
*Wanli starts to rule in China.

Births

* January 10 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
* January 18 - Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (d. 1621)
* April 17 - Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1651)
* April 26 - Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
* April 28 - Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, natural son of Charles IX of France (d. 1650)
* June - Juan Pau Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (d. 1626)
* July 15 - Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
* July 25 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (d. 1650)
* October 7 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
* December 6 - Odoardo Cardinal Farnese, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy (died 1626)
*"date unknown"
**Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (d. 1647)
**Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1605)
**Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1655)
**Richard Johnson, English romance writer (d. 1659)
**Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (d. 1628)
**John Kendrick, English merchant (d. 1624)
**Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (d. 1626)

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Deaths

* March 13 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1505)
* May 13 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
* July - Étienne Jodelle, French dramatist and poet (b. 1532)
* July 16 - Wigbolt Ripperda, Mayor of Haarlem
* July 29 - John Caius, English physician (b. 1510)
* August 14 - Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
* September 16 - Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese warlord (b. 1533)
* September 23 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
* October 27 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
* December 30 - Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian novelist and poet (b. 1504)
*"date unknown"
**Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (b. 1494)
**William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, English Lord High Admiral (b. 1510)
**Shimazu Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (b. 1503)
**Paul Skalic, Croatian encyclopedist (b. 1534)
**Reginald Wolfe, English printer
**Murakami Yoshikiyo, Japanese warlord (b. 1501)

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