1571

Years: 1568 1569 1570 - 1571 - 1572 1573 1574
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
January 23 - The Royal Exchange opens in London.
Crimean Tatars from the Crimean Khanate seize and burn Moscow.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School founded in Horncastle
October 7 Battle of Lepanto - Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

January 9 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
January 27 - Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (died 1629)
February 15 - Michael Praetorius, German composer and writer on music (died 1621)
May 11 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (died 1637)
October 18 - Wolfgang Ratke, German educationist (died 1635)
December 9 - Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
December 27 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (died 1630)
Henry Ainsworth, English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (died 1622)
William Bedell, Anglican churchman (died 1642)
Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (died 1638)
Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of Henri IV of France (died 1599)
Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (died 1627)
Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (died 1603)
Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (died 1603)
Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, Venetian cardinal (died 1623)
Thomas Storer, English poet (died 1604)
Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1648)