Editing 1570 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Ivan the Terrible]] begins the [[Massacre of Novgorod]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rt4_AQAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=F. Jefferies|page=174}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The [[assassination]] of Scottish regent [[James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray]], by [[James Hamilton (assassin)|James Hamilton]], the first known shooting of a national leader, throws Scotland into [[civil war]]. Having loaded a carbine rifle and carried it into the [[Linlithgow]] home of his uncle, the [[John Hamilton (archbishop of St Andrews)|Archbishop of St Andrews]], Hamilton stands at an upstairs window overlooking the street where Moray will ride by on horseback as part of cavalcade. Once Moray comes into range, Hamilton fires and fatally wounds the regent for King James VI.<ref>"Stewart, James, first earl of Moray (1531/2–1570)", by Mark Loughlin, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004) accessed January 24, 2011</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; An [[1570 Concepción earthquake|estimated 8.3 magnitude earthquake]] occurs in [[Concepción, Chile]].<ref>{{cite web |title=GHEA - Global Historical Earthquake Archive |url=https://www.emidius.eu/GEH/map.php |website=www.emidius.eu |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Venus]] [[occultation|occults]] [[Jupiter]]; this will next happen in [[1818]].<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Mutual Planetary Occultations 2BC to 2250 |url=https://www.bogan.ca/astro/occultations/occltlst.htm |website=www.bogan.ca |access-date=22 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] &ndash; The ambassador of the Ottoman Sultan [[Selim II]] goes before the governing Council of the [[Venetian Republic]] and requests that Venice surrender the island of [[Cyprus]].<ref>{{Cite book| last=Finkel | first=Caroline | title=Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923 | publisher=John Murray | page=160 |location=London | year=2006 }}</ref> The Council rejects the demand and [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)|prepares to go to war]] with the Ottoman Empire.