| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Feb 23 |
Pierre Certon, French composer |
Feb 28 |
Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505) |
Mar 2 |
Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil |
Mar 27 |
Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523) |
May 1 |
Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies |
Jun 2 |
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, executed at 36 |
Jun 7 |
August I [Sigismund II August], king of Poland (1548-72), dies at 42 |
Jun 9 |
Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra, dies at 44 |
Jun 24 |
Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged |
Jun 24 |
Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged |
Jun 24 |
Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged |
Jun 24 |
Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged |
Jun 24 |
Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged |
Jul 7 |
Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51 |
Aug 5 |
Isaac Luria, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1534) |
Aug 20 |
Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) |
Aug 22 |
Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528) |
Aug 24 |
Gaspard de Châtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral and Huguenot leader, beheaded |
Aug 24 |
Death of thousands of French Protestants by Roman Catholics in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, beginning in Paris |
Aug 24 |
Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515) |
Aug 24 |
Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (bc. 1535) |
Aug 26 |
Petrus Ramus, French philosopher (b. 1515) |
Aug 27 |
Claude Goudimel, French composer |
Sep 5 |
Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71 |
Sep 30 |
Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and Jesuit priest, dies at 61 |
Oct 24 |
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508) |
Nov 23 |
Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (b. 1503) |
Nov 24 |
John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67 |
Dec 10 |
Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered at 72 |
Dec 30 |
Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 |
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