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.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1571 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 24 june | 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. |
| 24 june | Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established acouncil to govern the city of Manila, nowthe capital of the Philippines. |
| 27 june | Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishingJesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford. |
| 07 september | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for hisinvolvement in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and replace herwith Mary, Queen of Scots. |
| 07 october | 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. |
| 19 May | Miguel López de Jagazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |
| 21 November | The ruler of Delhi, Alexander Lodi, died. |
| 27 December | German mathematician and astronomer Yuhan Kepler was born. His three laws related to astronomy are known as the Kepler law. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1571:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 07 August | Thomas Lupo / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 09 January | Charles Bonaventure de Longueval / Commander / France |
| 09 December | Metius / Astronomer / Netherlands |
| 11 May | Niwa Nagashige / Daimyo / Japan |
| 15 February | Michael Praetorius / Composer / Germany |
| 18 November | Hippolytus Guarinonius / Physician / Italy |
| 27 December | Johannes Kepler / Astronomer / Germany |
| 29 September | Caravaggio / Painter / Italy |