1570

Years: 1567 1568 1569 - 1570 - 1571 1572 1573
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war
February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis
May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
August 8 - The Peace of Saint-Germain ends the Third War of Religion in France. Again, the Huguenots are promised religious freedom and political autonomy.
China, the Voyage in Occident, (Novel)

See also Category: 1570 births.

January 8 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (born 1510)
January 23 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
October 1 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (born 1520)
October 18 - Manoel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit in Brazil (b. 1517)
October 20 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
November 27 - Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1486)
François Bonivard, Swiss patriot and historian (born 1496)
Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)
Jacques Grévin, French dramatist (born 1539)
Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar (born 1501)
Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist and reformer (born 1500)
Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter, architect, and sculptor (born 1504)
Tomás de Santa María, Spanish music theorist
Zofia Tarnowska, Polish noblewoman (born 1534)
Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi, Russian diplomat

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