This article is about the year 1578.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1540s 1550s 1560s – 1570s – 1580s 1590s 1600s |
Years: | 1575 1576 1577 – 1578 – 1579 1580 1581 |
1578 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1578 MDLXXVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2331 |
Armenian calendar | 1027 ԹՎ ՌԻԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6328 |
Bahá'í calendar | -266–-265 |
Bengali calendar | 985 |
Berber calendar | 2528 |
English Regnal year | 20 Eliz. 1 – 21 Eliz. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2122 |
Burmese calendar | 940 |
Byzantine calendar | 7086–7087 |
Chinese calendar | 丁丑年十一月廿四日 (4214/4274-11-24) — to —
戊寅年十二月初四日(4215/4275-12-4) |
Coptic calendar | 1294–1295 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1570–1571 |
Hebrew calendar | 5338–5339 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1634–1635 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1500–1501 |
- Kali Yuga | 4679–4680 |
Holocene calendar | 11578 |
Iranian calendar | 956–957 |
Islamic calendar | 985–986 |
Japanese calendar | Tenshō 6 (天正6年) |
Julian calendar | 1578 MDLXXVIII |
Korean calendar | 3911 |
Minguo calendar | 334 before ROC 民前334年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2121 |
Year 1578 (MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 31 – Battle of Gembloux: Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. Alexander Farnese begins to recover control of the French-speaking Southern Netherlands.
- April 27 – The Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favourites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
- May 31 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
July–December
- August 4 – Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moors defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian I of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
- October 1 – Alessandro Farnese succeeds Don John as Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands.
- October 21 - Battle of Wenden: The Russians are defeated by the Swedes, who proceed to take Polotsk.
Date unknown
- Martin Frobisher holds the first celebration of Thanksgiving by Europeans in North America at Newfoundland by the Frobisher Expedition.
- Sonam Gyrso receives from prince Atlan Khan the title of Talaï, and becomes the third Dalai Lama of Tibet.
- The Ottoman Empire conquers Abkhazia.
- The sixth and so far last outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England.
- Emperor Sarsa Dengel of Ethiopia kills Bahr negus Yeshaq, finally ending his rebellion.
- Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the globe, passes through the Strait of Magellan.
Births
- March 2 – George Sandys, English traveller (d. 1644)
- April 1 – William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
- April 14 – King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
- May 16 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- July 9 – Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
- August 5 – Charles de Luynes, first duke of Chaulnes (d. 1621)
- August 17 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
- November 1 – Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
- December 2 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (d. 1640)
- date unknown
- Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1650)
- Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1648)
- Yamada Arinaga, Japanese retainer of the Shimazu clan (d. 1668)
- Benedetto Castelli, Italian scientist (d. 1643)
- Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer (d. 1640)
- Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (d. 1625)
- Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (d. 1650)
- Samuel Jordan, American colonial legislator (d. 1623)
- Grzegorz IV Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1613)
- François Ravaillac, killer of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
- Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (d. 1632)
- Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyo (d. 1604)
Deaths
- February 5 – Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1510)
- March 3 – Sebastiano Venier, Doge of Venice (b. 1496)
- March 7 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
- March 29 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
- March 29 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
- April 14 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1535)
- April 19 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
- June 20 – Thomas Doughty, English explorer (executed)
- August 4
- King Sebastian I of Portugal (b. 1554)
- Thomas Stucley, English adventurer (b. 1525)
- Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, King of Morocco
- Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, King of Morocco
- August 8 – Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (b. 1553)
- August 11 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
- October 1 – Don John of Austria, military leader (b. 1547)
- date unknown
- Jane Lumley, English translator (b. 1537)
- Giulio Clovio, Italian painter (b. 1498)
- Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (b. 1536)
- Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (b. 1501)
- Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1539)
- Juraj Julije Klovic, Dalmatian painter (b. 1498)
- Pierre Lescot, French architect (b. 1510)