1574

Year 1574 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1574

* February 23 - The fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins in France.
* April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau, who is killed.
* May 30 - On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III of France. His mother, Catherine de' Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
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Murad III.]
* June 10 - Manila gains cityhood.
* August 30 - Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
* October 3 - The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.
* November 22 - The Juan Fernández Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, are discovered by Spanish sailor Juan Fernández.

Undated

* Murad III succeeds ala lang Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Births

* March 7 - John Wilbye, English composer (date of baptism) (d. 1638)
* May 6 - Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
* June - Richard Barnfield, English poet (d. 1627)
* July 1 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and satirist (d. 1656)
* August 7 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (d. 1649)
* September - Thomas Gataker, English clergyman and theologian (d. 1654)
*September 6 - Luis Sotelo, Franciscan friar (d. 1624)
* October 14 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland (d. 1619)
*"date unknown"
**John Day, English dramatist (d. 1640)
**Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist (d. 1637)
**Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1650)
**Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1634)
**Claudio Pari, Sicilian composer
**Feng Menglong, Chinese poet (d. 1645)

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Deaths

* January 30 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
* April 14 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (b. 1538)
* April 17 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500)
* April 21 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
* April 30 - Joseph Boniface de La Molle, Provençale lover of Marguerite de Valois (b. 1530)
* May 14 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
* May 30 - King Charles IX of France (b. 1550)
* June 26 - Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (b. 1530)
* June 27 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
*September 17 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
* October 1 - Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (b. 1498)
* November 28 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
* December 12 - Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
* December 26 - Charles of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
*"date unknown"
**Hans Eworth, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
**Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (b. 1516)
**Solomon Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1510)
**Georg Joachim Rheticus, Hungarian cartographer and instrument maker (b. 1514)
**Martin de Goiti, Spanish conquistador

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