1578

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1575
  • 1576
  • 1577
  • 1578
  • 1579
  • 1580
  • 1581
August 4: Battle of Alcácer Quibir
1578 in various
Minguo calendar
334 before ROC
民前334年
Nanakshahi calendar110
Thai solar calendar2120–2121
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1704 or 1323 or 551
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1705 or 1324 or 552

1578 (MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) in the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.[14]
  • Battle of Wenden: The Russians are defeated by the Swedes, who proceed to take Polotsk
    .
  • Walter Ralegh set out from Plymouth in England, leading an expedition to establish a colony in North America. They will be forced to turn back six months later.[15]
  • December 9 – After more than five years of combat in southern France, the Protestant Huguenot citadel of Ménerbes negotiates a surrender to its French Catholic attackers.[16]

Date unknown

Births

William Harvey
Philip III of Spain

Deaths

Giovanni Battista Moroni
Sebastian of Portugal
Archduke Wenceslaus of Austria
Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias

References

  1. ^ "Osmanska opsada Gvozdanskog 1578" [The Ottoman siege of Gvozdansko in 1578], by Hrvoje Kekez, in Magazin Za Vojnu Povijest No.4 (in Croatian), 2011, pp. 70–73
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  3. – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ "'Kennen, respecteren ende gehoorsamen': Amsterdamse schouten en hun ambt", Jaarboek Amstelodamum 89 (1997) p.16
  5. ^ Colin P. Mitchell, The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric (I.B. Tauris, 2009) p. 160
  6. ^ "Da Pónte, Nicolò, doge di Venezia", by Giuseppe Gullino, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 32 (Treccani, 1986)
  7. ^ "Lucas, François, dit Lucas Brugensis", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, ed. by A. C. De Schrevel (Brussels, 1893) pp. 550-563
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  9. ^ Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte June 11, 1578, from the Avalon Project.
  10. ^ Harry Kelsey, Sir Francis Drake: the Queen's Pirate (Yale University Press, 1998) pp.108-109
  11. ^ Melanie Kirkpatrick, Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience (Encounter Books, 2016) p.31
  12. ^ Richard Collinson, The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West A.D. 1576—8 (Hakluyt Society, 1867)
  13. ^ a b "Voyage of the Golden Hind". The Golden Hind. Brixham. 2012. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
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  16. ^ Robert Bailly, Topographie du siège et du bourg de Ménerbes (1573-1578): la Citadelle (Académie de Vaucluse, 1968)
  17. ^ Haddow, Alexander John (1982). The History and Structure of Ceol Mor: A Guide to Piobaireachd, the Classical Music of the Great Highland Bagpipe: a Collection of Critical and Historical Essays. M.R.S. Haddow. p. 67.
  18. ^ "BBC - History - William Harvey". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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  20. ^ Michael Levey (1964). The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. Phaidon Publishers. p. 51.
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