History
1575
General
Population: 520 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Johann Fischart (German adaptaion of Rabelais' Gargantua, George Gascoigne The Posies,
Tasso (poems about the crusades), Christopher Saxton Country Atlas of England and Wales, George Tuberville Book of Falconrie
Art includes Veronese "Moses Saved from the Waters
Music includes William Byrd and Thomas Tallis (collection of 34 motets)
- Fashion: Baroque period begins
- Science: Tycho Brahe constructs an observatory at Uraniborg for Frederick II of Denmark
- Deaths: Poetess Anna Bijns, Poet Diego Hurtade de Mendoza, Architect Cornelius Floris
Africa
- Angola: Portuguese begin to colonize Angola at slave town of Luanda, 100+ years of fighting follows
Americas
- Chile: Earthquake estimated at 8.5
Asia
- India: Mogul Emperor Akbar conquers Bengal
Europe
- General: At conference in Breda Philip II refuses to grant concessions to Dutch rebels
- England: Freedom from arrest granted by English Parliament for its members and their servants
Archbishop Matthew Parker leaves collection of historical documents to Corpus Christi College at Cambridge
Edmund Grindal becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
- France: King Henry III of France crowned at Rheims
- Holland: Universisty of Leiden founded by William of Orange
- Italian States: First European imitations of Chinese porcelain made in Venice and Florence
Outbreaks of plague in Sicily spread through Italy up to Milan
- Poland: Stephen Bathory, prince of Transylvania in Romania elected king of Poland
- Spain: State bankruptcy as troops remain unpain in Netherlands