History
1576
General
Population: 521 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Johann Fischart (satirical journey), George Gascoigne (verse satire), Tomas Luis de Victoria (masses and canticles),
- Mathematics: François Viete introduces decimal fractions
- Politics: Jean Bodin advocates constitutional monarchy
- Religion: League of Torgau draws up articles of faith supporting opinions of Lutherans
- Science: Clusius publishes treatise on flowers of Spain and Portugal - start of modern botany
Robert Norman the English hydrographer discovers magnetic dip or inclination
- Deaths: Artist Itziano Vecelli (Titian), Poet and singer Hans Sachs, Mathematician and astrologer Geronimo Cardano, Composer Balint Bakfark,
Emperor Maximilian II
Americas
- Canada: Martin Frobisher tries to find NW passage to China along Canadian coast - Frobisher Bay, Baffin Bay explored
- Mexico: Hemorrhagic fever outbreak
Asia
- India: Mughal conquest of Bengal under Akbar is completed
Europe
- England: Richard Burbage obtains 21 year lease of land in Shoreditch London with permission to build theater
- France: Edict of Beaulieu tolerating Reformed religion in France - Protestantism forbidden
Academie du Palais founded in Paris by Henry III – associated with Baif's Academie of 1570
- Holland: Philip II makes half brother Don John of Austria Governor of the Netherlands
Act of Federation between Holland and Zeeland signed in Delft
Congress of Ghent discusses pacification of the Netherlands
Spanish sack Antwerp - commits acts of vandalism in Netherlands and Catholics and Protestants unite against Spain
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Maximilian II HRE – brother (or son) Rudolf II rules
Palladio creates Il Redentore church in Venice
- Italian States: Plague in Milan
- Poland: University of Warsaw created