Editing 1575 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 21]] &ndash; Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] grants a monopoly on producing printed [[sheet music]], to [[Thomas Tallis]] and [[William Byrd]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/581620/Thomas-Tallis|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online|title=Thomas Tallis}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[William I of Orange]] founds [[Leiden University]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; Portuguese explorer [[Paulo Dias de Novais]] arrives in southeastern Africa to colonize what is now Angola.<ref>[http://jornaldeangola.sapo.ao/17/0/luanda_nasceu_na_ilha_do_cabo "Luanda nasceu na ilha do cabo"] ("Luanda was born on Cape Island", ''Jornal de Angola'' No. 17</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; The formal coronation of [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] as [[King of France]] takes place at the [[Reims Cathedral]]. Henry inherited the throne on May 30, 1574, upon the death of his older brother, [[Charles IX of France|Charles IX]].<ref name="Crawford2010">{{cite book|author=Katherine Crawford|title=The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9TU7ZKzANkC&pg=PA216|date=22 April 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-76989-1|pages=216|language=en}}</ref> He marries [[Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont]].<ref name="Crawford2010"/>
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Battle of Tukaroi]]: The [[Mughal Empire]] decisively defeats the [[Karrani dynasty]] of [[Bengal]]. The battle took place near the village of Tukaroi in present-day Balasore District of Odisha.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 2]] &ndash; English [[privateer]] [[Gilbert Horseley]] and his crew sail into the [[Bay of Honduras]] in Central America and conduct three days of raids of Spanish settlements and ships.<ref>''Documents concerning English voyages to the Spanish main, 1569-1580'', ed. by Irene A. Wright (Hakluyt Society, 1932) p.97</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; [[Antoine I de Gramont]], Lord Sovereign of the [[Principality of Bidache]] in the French Pyrennees Mountains, promulgates a legal code for his people. 
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Bayinnaung]], King of Burma, returns to his capital at [[Bago, Myanmar|Pegu]] from [[Vientiane]] after installing [[Voravongsa I]] as the Burmese-appointed monarch of the Kingdom of [[Lan Xang]] (now Laos).<ref>Peter Simms and Sandra Simms, ''The Kingdoms of Laos: Six Hundred Years of History'' (Routledge, 2001) pp. 85–86</ref>
* [[May 12]] &ndash; KIng [[Henry III of France]], who had been selected in 1573 by the nobles of Poland and Lithuania to be King of Poland as Henryk Walezy, is stripped of his Polish and Lithuanian titles after failing to return to [[Kraków]] by the deadline imposed by the Polish nobility.<ref>Daniel Stone, ''The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386–1795'' (University of Washington Press, 2001) pp. 120–121</ref>
* [[May 24]] &ndash; In an attempt to reform the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], Lutheran missionaries meet with [[Jeremias II of Constantinople|Jeremias II Tranos]], the Ecumenical Patriarch, at his residence in [[Constantinople]], and present him with a Greek translation of the [[Augsburg Confession]].<ref>Timothy Ware, ''The Orthodox Church'' (Penguin Books, 1993) p.94</ref> Jeremias sends the missionaries, [[Jakob Andreae]] and [[Martin Crusius]], three rebuttals to define the objections he has to the Lutheran document, declaring the reasons why the Eastern Orthodoxy has no desire for reformation. 
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[William I of Orange]] marries [[Charlotte of Bourbon]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Adolphus William Ward|title=the cambridge modern history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6w8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA241|year=1934|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=241}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Nagashino]]: [[Oda Nobunaga]] defeats [[Takeda Katsuyori]] in [[Japan]]'s first ''modern'' battle.<ref>{{cite book|author=International Comparative Literature Association. Congress|title=Proceedings of the ... Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4aoHAQAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|pages=515|language=en}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Raid of the Redeswire]]: [[Sir John Carmichael]] defeats [[Sir John Forster]], in the last battle between England and Scotland.
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Edmund Grindal]] succeeds [[Matthew Parker]] as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Arthur F. Kinney|title=Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan State and Church Officers and Knights, with Peers of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1558-1603|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAUdAAAAYAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Archon Books|isbn=978-0-208-01334-7|page=19|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Henry Sidney]] is appointed [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]]. 
* [[September 22]]
**Paulo Dias de Novais becomes the first Portuguese Governor of Angola.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lingna Nafafé |first=José |title=Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century |date=2022 |publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>
**Ottoman forces led by [[Ferhad Pasha Sokolović]] defeat the Austrian Army, led by [[Herbard VIII von Auersperg]], in the Battle of Budačka. Auersperg is decapitated and Ferhad Pasha leaves Croatia with the head as a trophy. 
* [[September 1]] &ndash;As a result of the Eighty Years' War, the government of the Kingdom of Spain is in bankruptcy and stops paying its troops, beginning in March.<ref>María Antonia Garcés, ''Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive's Tale'' (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005) p.222</ref>   
* [[September 25]] &ndash; At [[St. Vitus Cathedral]] in [[Prague]], [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf of Habsburg]], son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, is crowned [[List of Bohemian monarchs|King of Bohemia]] by the Archbishop [[Antonín Brus of Mohelnice]].
* [[September 26]] &ndash; Future Spanish author and playwright [[Miguel de Cervantes]], then 28, is taken hostage by the Ottoman Albanian pirate [[Arnaut Mami]] after an attack on the Spanish [[galley]] ''Sol'' off of the Catalan coast. Cervantes spends the next five years as a slave in Algeria before his family pays a ransom to free him.<ref>Donald P. McCrory, ''No Ordinary Man: The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes'' (Dover Publishing, 2006) pp.65-68</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dormans]]: [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] forces under [[Henry I, Duke of Guise]] defeat the [[Protestants]], capturing [[Philippe de Mornay]] among others.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jeremy Black|title=European Warfare, 1494-1660|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dz_JaYpWSGUC&pg=PA100|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-27532-3|pages=100|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 22]] &ndash; The city of ''Villa de la Asunción'' (today [[Aguascalientes City|Aguascalientes]]) is founded in [[New Spain]], by permission from [[Philip II of Spain]]. 
* [[November 8]] &ndash; [[1576 Polish–Lithuanian royal election|The Sejm of Poland meets in Warsaw]] to elect a new [[King of Poland]] after [[Henry III of France|King Henryk]] has failed to return from France, and considers 11 candidates. 
* [[November 9]] &ndash; Ferhad Pasha Sokolović returns to Constantinople in triumph with the head of General Auersperg as a trophy after his September 22 victory at Budecka. 
* [[November 22]] &ndash; Portuguese navigator [[Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo]] departs from [[Mozambique]] on a mission for to map the coastline, completing the task on March 13. 
* [[December 12]] &ndash; Under pressure from Papal nuncio [[Vincenzo Lauro]] when a majority of the Sejm has still not agreed on a candidate, the [[Primate of Poland]], [[Jakub Uchański]], declares Maximilian II new King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. 
* [[December 16]] &ndash; An [[1575 Valdivia earthquake|earthquake]] hits [[Valdivia]].

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Russians]] occupy [[Pärnu|Pernau]] in western [[Estonia]], and the fortress of [[Paide|Weissenstein]].
* The seat of the [[Audiencia Real]] in [[Chile]] moves from [[Concepción, Chile|Concepción]] to [[Santiago]].
* [[Abraham Ortelius]] becomes a geographer to [[Philip II of Spain]].
* The [[bubonic plague]] decimates [[Venice]].
* Captains of vessels flying the Spanish flag are legally required to maintain a [[logbook]].<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/pub/b001.html|title=Introduction to Christopher Columbus, Journal of the first voyage|publisher=[[King's College London]]|first=B. W. |last=Ife| access-date =22 Aug 2015}}</ref></onlyinclude>
* [[Venceslaus Agrippa Lituanus]] is the [[Great Scribe of Lithuania]].<ref name="VLE">{{cite web |last1=Tumelis |first1=Juozas |title=Vaclovas Agripa |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/vaclovas-agripa/ |website=vle.lt |access-date=19 May 2024}}</ref>