Editing 1573

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[[File:Battle_of_Mikatagahara.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[January 25]]: [[Battle of Mikatagahara]] in Japan]]
[[File:Vroom Hendrick Cornelisz Battle of Haarlemmermeer.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[May 26]]: [[Battle of Haarlemmermeer]] in the [[Netherlands]]]]

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Year '''1573''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDLXXIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 25]] (22nd day of 12th month of [[Genki (era)|Genki 3]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Mikatagahara]] in Japan, [[Takeda Shingen]] defeats [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jeroen Pieter Lamers|title=Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord, Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-CIg2yGJx8C|year=2000|publisher=Hotei Publishing|isbn=978-90-74822-22-0|page=49|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 28]]
** Articles of the [[Warsaw Confederation]] are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jedin |first1=Hubert |last2=Dolan |first2=John Patrick |title=History of the Church: Reformation and Counter Reformation |date=1980 |publisher=Burns & Oates |isbn=978-0-86012-085-8 |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJHYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Warsaw+Confederation+religious+freedom+%2228+january+1573%22&pg=PA319 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
** The [[Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt]], started by [[Matija Gubec]],  breaks out against the Croatian nobility, but is suppressed after 18 days.<ref name=Klaic>Vjekoslav Klaić, ''History of the Croats'', Volume 5 (Matica hrvatska,  1988) p.375</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; The [[Wanli Era]] begins in [[Ming dynasty]] [[China]] on the first New Year after 9-year-old [[Zhu Yijun]] ascends the throne.
* [[February 6]] &ndash; In the battle of [[Kerestinec]], General Gašpar Alapić defeats the rebel troops led by Gubec.<ref name=Klaic/>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; Croatian troops, led by General Alapic, defeat the peasant rebellion in the [[Battle of Stubica (1573)|Battle of Stubica]], then begin a violent campaign of vengeance against the conquered rebels.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horvat |first1=Rudolf |title=Pripovijesti iz hrvatske povjesti |date=1904 |publisher=Društvo sv.Jeronima |pages=42–43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H80JAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ga%C5%A1par+Alapi%C4%87+Bitka+kod+Stubice+%229.+velja%C4%8De+1573.%22&pg=PA42 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=hr}}</ref> Rebellion leaders Matija Gubec and Ivan Pasanec are taken as prisoners of war for a trial for treason at [[Zagreb]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Fourth War of Religion]]: France's Marshal [[Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency|Henri de Montmorency]], begins the [[Sommières#Siege of Sommières 1573|Siege of Sommières]] in southern France. The [[Huguenots]], French Protestants, hold out for almost two months against Montmorency's Catholic troops.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; On orders of the Croatian Viceroy [[Juraj Drašković]], [[Matija Gubec]], the defeated leader of the [[Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt]] is publicly tortured with the placement of a red-hot iron crown on his head, dragged through the streets of Zagreb, and then dismembered.<ref>Oto Lothar et al.''The Land Between: A History of Slovenia'' (Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008) p.214</ref>
* [[February 16]]&ndash;[[March]] &ndash; The [[siege of Noda Castle]] begins near what is now the city of [[Shinshiro]] in Japan, after the leader of the [[Takeda clan]], the warlord [[Takeda Shingen]], is shot by a sniper after offering generous terms of surrender to the [[Tokugawa clan]], led by [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. By March 10, the Noda Castle surrenders.<ref>Stephen Turnbull, ''Battles of the Samurai'' (Arms and Armour Press, 1987) p.78</ref>
* [[February 23]]&ndash; In the province of Munster in Ireland, the first Desmond Rebellion, led by [[James FitzMaurice FitzGerald]], cousin of the Earl of Desmond, ends at [[Kilmallock]] as FitzGerald makes a humiliating surrender to [[John Perrot]], the provincial leader.<ref>"Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Vol. 8 (11th ed.), ed. by Hugh Chisholm (Cambridge University Press, 1911) pp. 98–99</ref> 
* [[March 7]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)]] is ended by a peace treaty, confirming the transfer of control of [[Cyprus]] from the [[Republic of Venice]] to the [[Ottoman Empire]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ágoston |first1=Gábor |title=The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe |date=12 September 2023 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20539-7 |page=245 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zS0EAAAQBAJ&dq=Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian+War+cyprus+dalmatia+%227+march+1573%22&pg=PA245 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and also confirming Turkish occupation of the more fertile region of [[Dalmatia]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; On his [[Francis Drake's expedition of 1572–1573|expedition to the New World]], [[Francis Drake]] and his crew make their most lucrative capture by seizing a wagon train of silver at Panama, near the settlement of [[Nombre de Dios, Colón|Nombre de Dios]].<ref>John Sugden, ''Sir Francis Drake'' (Pimlico Press, 1990) pp. 72-73</ref><ref>N. A. M. Rodger, ''The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660–1649'' (Penguin UK, 2004) p.lxxxiii</ref>
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[1573 Polish–Lithuanian royal election]]: [[Kingdom of Poland|Polish]] and [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania|Lithuanian]] nobles gather at [[Warsaw]] to elect a successor to King [[Sigismund II Augustus]], who had died the previous July 7.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leśniewski |first1=Sławomir |title=Jan Zamoyski |date=1991 |publisher=Bellona |pages=28–29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXozFROF9QoC&q=1573 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=pl}}</ref> The vote comes down to four candidates, from France, the Holy Roman Empire, Sweden and Russia.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Sommières]] ends with the surrender of the Huguenot defenders, who are spared retaliation by General Montmorency, despite the loss of 2,500 royal troops.
* [[April 22]] &ndash; [[Eighty Years' War]]: The [[Battle of Borsele]] is fought as a fleet of Spanish ships is intercepted by Dutch Calvinist rebels (the [[Geuzen]]). While some of the ships are able to complete their mission of supplying the Spanish-governed Netherlands cities of [[Middelburg, Zeeland|Middelburg]] and [[Arnemuiden]], most are forced to retreat to [[Antwerp|Amberes]] in the Spanish Netherlands, now Antwerp in Belgium.
* [[May 16]]&ndash; The [[Henry III of France|Henry, Duke of Anjou]], son of the late King [[Henry II of France]] is elected to the throne of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] by the Polish nobility, after being nominated on May 11.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaczorowski |first1=Włodzimierz |title=The 400th anniversary of the death of Stanisław Żółkiewski, Hetman and Great Crown Chancellor, Senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |journal=Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne |date=2020 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=153–164 |doi=10.25167/osap.3438 |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=933790 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=English |issn=1731-8297|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[May 26]] &ndash; [[Battle of Haarlemmermeer]]: [[Geuzen]] ships, attempting to break the [[siege of Haarlem]], are defeated by a combined Spanish and Amsterdam fleet.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; After [[Henry III of France|Henry, Duke of Anjou]] learns that he has been elected the King of Poland, he agrees to negotiate an end to the [[Siege of La Rochelle (1572–1573)|Siege of La Rochelle]], which has continued for almost nine months against the Huguenots in the western French city, and reaches an agreement with the Huguenot defender, the [[Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery|Count of Montgomery]].

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]], in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]], is founded by [[Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera]].<ref name="Henderson2000">{{cite book|author1=James D. Henderson|author2=Alexander C. Henderson|author3=Helen Delpar|title=A Reference Guide to Latin American History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e2F7c0wW7g4C&pg=PA83|year=2000|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-744-6|pages=83|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] &ndash; The [[Edict of Boulogne]] is signed by [[Charles IX of France]], granting limited rights to [[Huguenot]]s, and ending the [[Fourth War of Religion]] in France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peiresc |first1=Nicolas Claude Fabri de |title=Abrégé de l'histoire de Provence et autres textes inédits |date=1982 |publisher=Aubanel |isbn=978-2-7006-0096-4 |page=257 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NIzpAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2211%20juillet%201573%22 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Siege of Haarlem (1572–73)|Siege of Haarlem]]: Spanish forces under the [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba|Duke of Alva]] capture [[Haarlem]], after a seven-month siege.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Quijano |first1=Gregorio del Ser |title=Fernando Álvarez de Toledo |date=2008 |publisher=Diputación de Ávila, Institución "Gran Duque de Alba" |isbn=978-84-96433-78-6 |page=281 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5mvs_M1xEoC&q=%20%2212%20de%20julio%20de%201573%22 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; The Duke of Alva begins the siege of [[Alkmaar]] in [[North Holland]], before retreating after seven weeks.<ref name="alkmaar">{{cite book |last1=Lummel |first1=Hendrik Jan van |title=T'zegevierend Alkmaar (Alcmaria victrix) 8 october 1573 |date=1873 |publisher=Van Bentum |pages=17–18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJU6atD36gQC&dq=Alkmaar+toledo+%2221+augustus+1573%22&pg=PA17 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[Oda Nobunaga]] drives the 15th Ashikaga shōgun [[Ashikaga Yoshiaki]] out of [[Kyoto]], effectively destroying the Ashikaga shogunate, and historically ending the [[Muromachi period|Muromachi]] and [[Sengoku period]]s. The [[Azuchi–Momoyama period]] of Japan begins.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; In Japan, elimination of the [[Asakura clan]] is completed by Oda Nobunaga after the [[siege of Hikida Castle]] and the [[siege of Ichijōdani Castle]] are completed in eight days. 
* [[September 26]] &ndash; The [[Azai clan]] is eliminated by Oda Nobunaga after the four day [[siege of Odani Castle]] in Japan.

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 8]] &ndash; The Spanish abandon the siege of the city of [[Alkmaar]] and concede the city to the Geuzen, the Dutch Calvinist rebels.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blok |first1=Petrus Johannes |title=Geschiedenis eener Hollandsche stad: Eene Hollandsche stad onder de republiek |date=1916 |publisher=M. Nijhoff |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rehWAAAAMAAJ&dq=Geuzen+Alkmaar+%228+october+1573%22&pg=PA47 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; The Spanish under John of Austria take [[Tunis#Spanish occupation and Ottoman control|Tunis]] with little resistance.<ref>Jonathan Riley-Smith, ''The Crusades: A History'' (A&C Black, 2014)</ref>
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Santa Fe, Argentina]], is founded by [[Juan de Garay]].<ref name="Henderson2000"/>
* [[November 29]] &ndash; The Duke of Alva resigns as the Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands, and is succeeded by [[Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga|Luis de Requesens]], who attempts to pursue a more conciliatory policy.<ref>"Literature of Belgium and the Netherlands", in ''The Saturday Review'' (August 25, 1888) p. 246</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; The French Duke of Anjou, recently elected as King Henry of Poland, departs from [[Metz]] with an entourage of 1,200 people, arriving at [[Kraków]] on February 18.<ref>Norman Davies, ''God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume 1: The Origins to 1795'' (Oxford University Press, ) p. 312</ref>  
* [[December 11]] &ndash; The Governor of Portuguese India issues an edict depriving [[Hinduism|Hindu]] followers of most rights, including the right to receive Jonoa, the share of the village community income.<ref>Manjul K. Agarwal, ''From Bharata to India: Volume 2: the Rape of Chrysee'' p.86</ref>
* [[December 17]] &ndash; Portuguese colonists are expelled from the [[Maldives]], where Portugal has had a presence since 1558, by order of the Sultan's son, Mohamed Bodu Takurufanu al-Azam.<ref>Ian Preston, ''A Political Chronology of Central, South and East Asia'' (Europa Publications, 2001) p.189</ref>
* [[December 23]] &ndash; In the Republic of Venice, the Council of Ten votes to grant safe conduct to Venice for Spanish and Portuguese Jews.<ref>Alisa Meyuhas Ginio, ''Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Mediterranean World After 1492'' (Routledge, 2014) p. 123</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Sarsa Dengel]], emperor of [[Ethiopia]], defeats the [[Oromo people|Oromo]] in a battle near [[Lake Zway]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Adejumobi |first1=Saheed A. |title=The History of Ethiopia |date=30 December 2006 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-08823-0 |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rjOEAAAQBAJ&dq=Sarsa+Dengel+oromo+Lake+Zway+%221573%22&pg=PA169 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* The first [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] galleon, laden with [[silver]] for the [[porcelain]] and [[silk]] trade with the [[Ming Dynasty]] of China, lands at [[Manila]] in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brook |first1=Timothy |title=The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China |date=18 May 1998 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-92407-9 |page=205 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsjaR4-_nuMC&dq=%221573%22+start+of+spanish+silver+trade+china&pg=PA205 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> This occasion marks the beginning of the Spanish silver trade to China, that will trump that of the [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]], the latter of whom acted as an intermediary between the silver mines of Japan, and the luxury items in China to be purchased with that silver. Most of the silver entering China comes from what is now Mexico, [[Bolivia]], and [[Peru]] in the [[New World]].
* The [[Luzhou Laojiao]] liquor is made.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Li |first1=Zhengping |title=Chinese Wine |date=3 March 2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-18650-6 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph2QpKioOCcC&dq=Luzhou+Laojiao+%221573%22&pg=PA41 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys]], [[London Borough of Barnet|Barnet]], England, is formed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Queen Elizabeth's boys' grammar has been doing its own thing since 1573 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/queen-elizabeths-boys-grammar-has-been-doing-its-own-thing-since-1573-with-impressive-results-9249507.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/queen-elizabeths-boys-grammar-has-been-doing-its-own-thing-since-1573-with-impressive-results-9249507.html |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |access-date=10 June 2019 |language=en |date=9 April 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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== Births ==
[[File:Elias Holl.jpg|thumbnail|right|110px|[[Elias Holl]]]]
[[File:Carrera Pietro.jpg|thumbnail|right|110px|[[Pietro Carrera]]]]
[[File:Kober-annarakuszankad.jpg|thumbnail|right|110px|[[Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland]]]]
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Simon Marius]], German astronomer (d. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Vierteljahrsschrift der Astronomischen Gesellschaft |date=1942 |publisher=Astronomische Gesellschaft |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odcSAQAAMAAJ&q=%20%2210%20januar%201573%22 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Ambrosius Bosschaert]], still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age (d. [[1621]])<ref>{{cite web |title=RKD Research |url=https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fartists%2f11147 |website=research.rkd.nl |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg]] (d. [[1627]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bricka |first1=Carl Frederik |title=Dansk biografisk Lexikon |date=1887 |publisher=F. Hegel & Søn |location=Copenhagen |page=177 |url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/1/0195.html |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Ludwig Camerarius]], German politician (d. [[1651]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schubert |first1=Friedrich Hermann |title=Ludwig Camerarius, 1573-1651: eine Biographie |date=1955 |publisher=Opf., M. Lassleben |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EirTAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2222%20januar%201573%22 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach]] (1604–1622) (d. [[1638]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fecht |first1=Karl Gustav |title=Geschichte der Stadt Durlach |date=1869 |publisher=Adolph Emmerling |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPFSAAAAcAAJ&dq=Georg+Friedrich+%2230+januar+1573%22&pg=PA99 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Elias Holl]], German architect (d. [[1646]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wagenseil |first1=Christian Jakob |title=Elias Holl: Baumeister der ehemaligen Reichsstadt Augsburg ; biographische Skizze ; ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte |date=1837 |publisher=Geiger |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4tEAAAAcAAJ&dq=Elias+Holl+%2228+februar+1573%22&pg=PA6 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] &ndash; [[Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt]], Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Plön (d. [[1616]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ersch |first1=Johann Samuel |title=Allgemeine encyclopädie der wissenschaften und künste |date=1841 |publisher=J. f. Gleditsch |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvFMAQAAMAAJ&dq=Agnes+Hedwig+von+Anhalt+%2212+marz+1573%22&pg=RA1-PA62 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Doria (bishop)|Giovanni Doria]], Spanish noble (d. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of June 9, 1604 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1604.htm#Doria |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=16 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Margaret of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], German noble (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Behr |first1=Kamill von |title=Genealogie der in Europa regierenden Fürstenhäuser nebst der Reihenfolge sämmtlicher Päpste |date=1854 |publisher=Tauchnitz |page=43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TahBAAAAcAAJ&dq=Margarethe+von+L%C3%BCneburg+%226+april+1573%22&pg=PA43 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Jacques Bonfrère]], Flemish Jesuit priest, biblical scholar (d. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sæbø |first1=Magne |last2=Brekelmans |first2=Christianus |last3=Haran |first3=Menahem |last4=Fishbane |first4=Michael A. |last5=Ska |first5=Jean Louis |last6=Machinist |first6=Peter |title=Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation: II: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment |date=1996 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-53982-8 |page=759 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtXYAAAAMAAJ&q=%20%2212%20april%201573%22 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Christina of Holstein-Gottorp]], Queen of Sweden (d. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Kristina - Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11772 |website=sok.riksarkivet.se}}</ref>
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria]] (d. [[1651]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Albrecht |first1=Dieter |title=Maximilian I. von Bayern 1573–1651 |date=27 November 2014 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-486-83080-4 |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-SdCgAAQBAJ&q=%2217%20april%201573%22 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; [[Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême]], natural son of Charles IX of France (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal de la Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain |date=1908 |publisher=Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xt4wAQAAIAAJ&dq=Charles+d%27Angoul%C3%AAme+%2228+avril+1573%22&pg=PA152 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] &ndash; [[Henri, Duke of Montpensier]], French noble (d. [[1608]])
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Taj Bibi Bilqis Makani]], Mughal empress (d. [[1619]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chandra |first1=Satish |title=Jodha Bai—Who Is She? |journal=Indian Historical Review |date=2008 |volume=35 |issue=2 |page=237 |doi=10.1177/037698360803500214 |s2cid=148336450 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/037698360803500214?journalCode=ihra |access-date=18 January 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex]], British Earl (d. [[1629]])
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Andries de Witt]], [[Grand Pensionary]] of [[Holland]] (d. [[1637]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1898 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=570 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_xNBrd_dPQC&dq=Andries+de+Witt+%2216+juni+1573%22&pg=PA570 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby]], English noble (d. [[1643]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sidney |title=The Dictionary of National Biography |date=1908 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=487 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kiE8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Henry+Danvers+%2228+june+1573%22&pg=PA487 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Pietro Carrera]], Italian priest, painter and saint (d. [[1647]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Carrera, Pietro |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-carrera_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Bonaventure Hepburn]], Scottish philologist and Minim friar (d. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Hepburn, James|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-13002|year=2004 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/13002}}</ref>
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Inigo Jones]], English architect (d. [[1652]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Inigo Jones {{!}} English architect and artist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Inigo-Jones |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] &ndash; [[Odoardo Fialetti]], Italian painter (d. [[1638]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Levey |first1=Michael |title=The Later Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen |date=1964 |publisher=Phaidon Publishers |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZKDqAAAAMAAJ&q=%2218%20july%201573%22 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Christoph Scheiner]], German astronomer and Jesuit (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Braunmühl |first1=Anton von |title=Christoph Scheiner als Mathematiker, Physiker und Astronom |date=1891 |publisher=Buchner |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Axc7PmM6W8C&dq=Christoph+Scheiner+%2225+juli+1573%22&pg=PA1 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 29]] &ndash; [[Philip II, Duke of Pomerania]]-Stettin (d. [[1618]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographie |date=1888 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQa6pxPY1gIC&dq=Philipp+II+%2229+juli+1573%22&pg=PA34 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (d. [[1598]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pelican |first1=Berta |title=Leben der Erzherzogin Maria von Steiermark: mutter Kaiser Ferdinands II; nach authentischen quellen bearbeitet |date=1903 |publisher=H. Kirich |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRRHAQAAMAAJ&dq=Anna+von+%C3%96sterreich+%2216+august+1573%22&pg=PA19 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German regent (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schäfer |first1=Dietrich |title=Geschichte von Dänemark |date=1902 |publisher=F.A. Perthes |page=259 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QasTAAAAQAAJ&dq=Elisabeth+von+D%C3%A4nemark+%2225+august+1573%22&pg=PA259 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Georg Friedrich von Greiffenklau]], Archbishop of Mainz (d. [[1629]])
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Théodore de Mayerne]], Swiss physician (d. [[1654]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trevor-Roper |first1=Hugh Redwald |title=Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne |date=1 January 2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-11263-4 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-qFISc3fXMC&dq=Th%C3%A9odore+Turquet+de+Mayerne+%2228+september+1573%22&pg=PA17 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Robert Payne (died 1631)|Robert Payne]], English politician (d. [[1631]])<ref>{{cite web |title=PAYNE, Sir Robert (1573-1631) |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/payne-sir-robert-1573-1631 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] &ndash; [[Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton]] (d. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Wriothesley, Henry, third earl of Southampton|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-30073|year=2004 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/30073}}</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[William Laud]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1645]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ronald H. Fritze|author2=William B. Robison|title=Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8goko0Lpr5sC&pg=PA284|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28391-8|pages=284|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Jacobus Boonen]], Dutch Catholic archbishop (d. [[1655]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Feller |first1=François Xavier |title=Geschiedkundig woordenboek |date=1830 |publisher=Arkesteyn |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b08IN0BoBSAC&dq=Jacobus+Boonen+11+oktober+1573&pg=PA6 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Lorraine (1573–1648)|Catherine of Lorraine]], Abbess of Remiremont (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Donnadieu |first1=Alphonse |title=L'hérédité dans la maison ducale de Lorraine-Vaudémont |date=1922 |publisher=Berger-Levrault |page=174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wdI_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Catherine+de+Lorraine+%223+novembre+1573%22&pg=RA4-PA172 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[November 29]] &ndash; [[Johannes Canuti Lenaeus]], archbishop of Uppsala (d. [[1669]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Johannes Canuti Lenæus |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11218 |website=sok.riksarkivet.se |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] &ndash; [[Aubert Miraeus]], Belgian historian (d. [[1640]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Journal of Library History: JLH. |date=1975 |publisher=School of Library Science |page=341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hUhQAAAAIAAJ&q=%20%2230%20november%201573%22 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Odoardo Farnese (cardinal)|Odoardo Farnese]], Italian Catholic cardinal  (d. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of March 6, 1591 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1591.htm#Farnese |website=cardinals.fiu.edu}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Mathurin Régnier]], French satirist (d. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Régnier |first1=Mathurin |last2=Duc |first2=Emmanuel Louis Viollet Le |title=Oeuvres complètes de Mathurin Regnier: avec les commentaires rev. et corr., préc. de l'histoire de la satire en France pour servir de discours préliminaire |date=1853 |publisher=Jannet |page=xxxvi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhs6AAAAcAAJ&dq=Mathurin+R%C3%A9gnier+%2221+decembre+1573%22&pg=PR37 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] &ndash; [[Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz]] (1606–1632) and Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (1625–1632) (d. [[1632]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Laar |first1=C. van |title=Levens-Beschryving Van Den Doorluchtigsten Vorst En Heere|date=1752 |publisher=Van der Deyster |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qI6AAAAcAAJ&dq=Ernst+Casimir+van+Nassau-Dietz+%2222+december+1573%22&pg=PA7 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[December 23]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Crespi]], Italian painter (d. [[1632]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crespi |first1=Giovanni Battista |last2=Rosci |first2=Marco |title=Il Cerano (1573-1632): protagonista del Seicento lombardo |date=2005 |publisher=F. Motta |isbn=978-88-7179-474-7 |page=98 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=efrpAAAAMAAJ&q=Giovanni+Battista+Crespi+%2223+dicembre+1573%22 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Gabrielle d'Estrées]], French royal mistress (d. [[1599]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Desclozeaux |first1=Adrien |title=Gabrielle d'Estreés, marquise de Monceaux, duchesse de Beaufort |date=1889 |publisher=H. Champion |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xq3xm4DDH80C&q=1573 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
** [[Richard Johnson (16th century)|Richard Johnson]], English romance writer (d. [[1659]])
** [[Johannes Junius]], Burgomeister of Bamberg (d. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Junius |first1=Anna Maria |last2=Hümmer |first2=Friedrich Karl |title=Bamberg im Schweden-Kriege: nach einem Manuscripte (Mittheilungen über die Jahre 1622-1634) |date=1891 |publisher=Buchner in Komm. |page=4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J4GXbHen7LcC&dq=Johannes+Junius+%221573%22&pg=PA4 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Oeyo]], wife of Tokugawa Hidetada (d. [[1626]])
** [[Sigismund Báthory]], Prince of Transylvania and of the Holy Roman Empire (d. [[1613]])
* ''approximate year''
** [[June]] &ndash; [[Joan Pau Pujol]], Catalan composer and organist (d. [[1626]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (cropped).jpg|thumbnail|right|110px|[[Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Hans Boije af Gennäs]], Swedish commander 
** [[Johann Pfeffinger]], German theologian (b. [[1493]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joecher |first1=Christian Gottlieb |title=Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon|date=1816 |publisher=Gleditsch |page=2182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVpnAAAAcAAJ&dq=Johann+Pfeffinger+27+december+1573&pg=PA2181 |access-date=16 January 2024 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash;  [[William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham]], English Lord High Admiral (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hickey |first1=Julia A. |title=The Son that Elizabeth I Never Had: The Adventurous Life of Robert Dudley's Illegitimate Son |date=15 September 2022 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-3990-9115-2 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMSAEAAAQBAJ&dq=William+Howard+%2212+january+1573%22&pg=PA41 |access-date=18 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1513]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar]] (b. [[1530]])
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Claude, Duke of Aumale]], third son of [[Claude, Duke of Guise]] (b. [[1526]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pitois |first1=Christian |title=Mémorial de la noblesse: chronologie militaire de France depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie |date=1851 |publisher=Au Bureau des annales militaires |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeWyPBlG_YgC&dq=Claude+II+d%27Aumale+%223+mars+1573%22&pg=PA130 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Michel de l'Hôpital]], French statesman (b. [[1505]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Seong-Hak Kim|title=Michel de L'Hôpital: The Political Vision of a Reformist Chancellor 1560-1568|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUsi0wTCFSIC|year=1991|publisher=University of Minnesota|page=270|language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Maria van Schooten]], Dutch war heroine (b. [[1555]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Schooten, Maria van |url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/schooten |website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl |access-date=21 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Otto Truchsess von Waldburg]], German Catholic cardinal (b. [[1514]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Consistory of December 19, 1544 (VIII) |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1544.htm#Truchess |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=21 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Andreas Masius]], Flemish Catholic priest (b. [[1514]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilkinson |first1=R. J. |title=The Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible |date=1 January 2007 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-474-2253-2 |pages=39–48 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789047422532/Bej.9789004162518.i-144_004.xml |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en |chapter=Chapter Three. The Northern Scholars: Masius}}</ref>
* [[April 29]] &ndash; [[Guillaume Le Testu]], French privateer (b. [[1509]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kelsey |first1=Harry |title=Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate |date=1 January 2000 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-08463-4 |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svtPzefAv-MC&dq=Guillaume+Le+Testu+29+avril+1573&pg=PA63 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Takeda Shingen]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1521]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lamers |first1=Jeroen Pieter |title=Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord, Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered |date=2000 |publisher=Hotei Publishing |isbn=978-90-74822-22-0 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-CIg2yGJx8C&q=%20%2213%20may%201573%22 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Antun Vrančić]], Croatian archbishop (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of June 2, 1572 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1572.htm#Verancsics |website=cardinals.fiu.edu |access-date=21 January 2024}}</ref>
* July &ndash; [[Étienne Jodelle]], French dramatist and poet (b. [[1532]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harry S. Ashmore|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQ5GAQAAIAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|page=80|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola]], Italian architect (b. [[1507]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Atti e memorie |date=1879 |publisher=Deputazione di storia patria per le provincie dell'Emilia |page=54 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GhQAQAAMAAJ&dq=Jacopo+Barozzi+da+Vignola+%227+luglio+1573%22&pg=RA1-PA54 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Wigbolt Ripperda]], mayor of Haarlem, Netherlands<ref>{{cite book |title=Groningsche volksalamanak |date=1916 |publisher=E.B. van der Kamp. |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLRBAQAAMAAJ&dq=Wigbolt+Ripperda+%2216+juli+1573%22&pg=PA131 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[July 29]] 
** [[John Caius]], English physician (b. [[1510]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Caius, John|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4351|year=2004 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4351}}</ref>
** [[Ruy Gómez de Silva]], Portuguese noble (b. [[1516]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Saitō Tatsuoki]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1548]])
* [[September 7]] &ndash; [[Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal]] (b. [[1535]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Asakura Yoshikage]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1533]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan |date=1983 |publisher=Kodansha |isbn=978-0-87011-620-9 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvApAQAAMAAJ&q=%20%2216%20september%201573%22 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Azai Hisamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1526]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rankin |first1=Andrew |title=Seppuku : a history of samurai suicide |date=2011 |publisher=Kodansha International |isbn=978-4-7700-3142-6 |page=63 |url=https://archive.org/details/seppukuhistoryof0000rank/page/62/mode/2up?q=1573 |access-date=21 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] &ndash; [[Azai Nagamasa]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1545]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Glenn |first1=Chris |title=The Samurai Castle Master: Warlord Todo Takatora |date=5 January 2023 |publisher=Frontline Books |isbn=978-1-3990-9661-4 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOSdEAAAQBAJ&dq=Azai+Nagamasa+%2226+september+1573%22&pg=PA8 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Laurentius Petri]], first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. [[1499]])<ref>{{cite book|author=August Strindberg|title=Mäster Olof: prosaupplagan skådespel i fem akter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Us8AQAAMAAJ|year=1921|publisher=A. Bonniers|page=xx|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Shimazu Katsuhisa]], Japanese nobleman (b. [[1503]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda]], Spanish philosopher and theologian (b. [[1494]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hillerbrand |first1=Hans Joachim |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-506493-3 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBMRAQAAMAAJ&q=%2217%20november%201573%22 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Giraldi]], Italian novelist and poet (b. [[1504]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Nuova enciclopedia italiana: Testo |date=1880 |publisher=Unione tipografico-editrice torinese |page=532 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21Q_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Giovanni+Battista+Giraldi+%2230+dicembre+1573%22&pg=PA532 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=it}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[Paul Skalich]], Croatian encyclopedist (b. [[1534]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sakcinski |first1=Ivan Kukuljević |title=Pavao Skalić, gradjanin zagrebački, učenjak na glasu, svećenik katolički i protestantski prvi ministar pruski, pustolov smjeli, nazvan Cagliostro XVI. vieka |date=1875 |publisher=Dionička tisk. |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9IJAAAAIAAJ&dq=Pavao+Skali%C4%87+%221573%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=hr}}</ref>
** [[Reginald Wolfe]], English printer
* [[February 3]] &ndash; [[Murakami Yoshikiyo]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1501]])<ref>{{cite web |title=村上義清(むらかみ・よしきよ)とは？ 意味や使い方 |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%9D%91%E4%B8%8A%E7%BE%A9%E6%B8%85-1114665 |website=コトバンク |access-date=21 January 2024 |language=ja}}</ref>
** [[Richard Grafton]], English merchant and printer (b. c.1506/7)<ref>{{cite web |title=Grafton, Richard (c.1507-73), of London. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/grafton-richard-1507-73 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=21 January 2024}}</ref>

== References ==
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