History
1573
General
Population: 519 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Johann Fischart (satire on women), Torquato Tasso Amnita, François Hofman (treatise on kings),
Music includes Orlando di Lasso "Patrocinium musices",
- Exploration: Francis Drake sees Pacific Ocean for first time
- Religion: Paolo Veronese called before Inquisition in Rome
- Deaths: Chancellor of France Michel de l'Hopital, Swedish Lutheran Bishop Laurentius Petri
Africa
- Tunis: Don John captures Tunis from Turks
Americas
- Mexico: Work begins on cathedral in Mexico City
Asia
- China: Reign of emperor Wan Li - 13th Ming Emperor
Period of great paintings and porcelain making, imperial kilns at Jingde Zhen produce china
- India: Mogul emperor Akbar conquers Gujurat
- Japan: End of the Ashikaga shogunate
Europe
- General: Henry Duke of Anjou made King of Poland and returns to France to succeed his brother Charles IX
Duke of Alba leaves Brussels for Spain
- England: Sir Francis Walsingham made chief Secretary of State
- France: Michel de l'Hopital the Chancellor of France dies
Fourth French War of Religion ends
Huguenots granted amnesty
- German States: First German cane-sugar refinery at Augsburg
- Holland: Spanish capture Haarlem after seven-month siege
- Holy Roman Empire: Peace of Constantinople ends war between Turks and Venice – Venice abandons Cyprus
Venice withrdaws from Holy league
- Italian States: Collegium Germanicum established in Rome
- Poland: Poland declares all religions under its constitution
Middle East
- Otoman Empire: Peace of Constantinople ends war between Turks and Venice – Venice abandons Cyprus