In history, year 1571 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1571.
Miguel Lopes de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines. Miguel López de Legazpi, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Basque Spanish navigator and governor who established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies when his expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean from the Viceroyalty of New Spain in modern-day Mexico, and founded Cebu on the Philippine Islands in 1565.
A Western Christian coalition inflicted a significant defeat upon the Ottoman Navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepan to,the first major Ottoman loss to European powers.
