History
1574
General
Population: 519 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jean Bodin (treatise on luxury), Hubert Languet (politics of Huguenots), Justis Lipsius (edits Tacitus' works),
Ulissi Aldovrand (treatise on drugs)
Art includes Tintoretto Paradiso,
- Deaths: Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Renaissance man Giorgio Vasari, Musician Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Anatomist Barotlomeo Eustacchio, Charles IX of France,
Selim II of Turkey, Cosimo I de Medici
Africa
- Angola: Portuguese colonize Angola and found Sao Paolo
- Tunisia: Spain loses Tunis to Turks
Americas
- Mexico: First auto-da-fe in Mexico
Asia
- Japan: End of reign of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Europe
- England: Richard Burbafe receives license to open theater in London
Longleat House in Wiltshire finished
- France: Death of Charles IX of France – brother Henry III king of Poland rules France
Fifth French War of Religion starts
- German States: University of Berlin founded
Conrad Dasypodius builds famous Strasbourg clock
- Holland: Storm in Leyden Netherlands kills Spanish troops - 20,000 die from floods
- Italian States: Death of Cosimo I de Medici and Francesco I de Medici rules family
- Scotland: Plague outbreak
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Selim II of Turkey dies and Murad III rules – Spain loses Tunis to Turks