Editing 1573 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 25]] (22nd day of 12th month of [[Genki (era)|Genki 3]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Mikatagahara]] in Japan, [[Takeda Shingen]] defeats [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jeroen Pieter Lamers|title=Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord, Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-CIg2yGJx8C|year=2000|publisher=Hotei Publishing|isbn=978-90-74822-22-0|page=49|language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 28]]
** Articles of the [[Warsaw Confederation]] are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jedin |first1=Hubert |last2=Dolan |first2=John Patrick |title=History of the Church: Reformation and Counter Reformation |date=1980 |publisher=Burns & Oates |isbn=978-0-86012-085-8 |page=319 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJHYAAAAMAAJ&dq=Warsaw+Confederation+religious+freedom+%2228+january+1573%22&pg=PA319 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
** The [[Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt]], started by [[Matija Gubec]],  breaks out against the Croatian nobility, but is suppressed after 18 days.<ref name=Klaic>Vjekoslav Klaić, ''History of the Croats'', Volume 5 (Matica hrvatska,  1988) p.375</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; The [[Wanli Era]] begins in [[Ming dynasty]] [[China]] on the first New Year after 9-year-old [[Zhu Yijun]] ascends the throne.
* [[February 6]] &ndash; In the battle of [[Kerestinec]], General Gašpar Alapić defeats the rebel troops led by Gubec.<ref name=Klaic/>
* [[February 9]] &ndash; Croatian troops, led by General Alapic, defeat the peasant rebellion in the [[Battle of Stubica (1573)|Battle of Stubica]], then begin a violent campaign of vengeance against the conquered rebels.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Horvat |first1=Rudolf |title=Pripovijesti iz hrvatske povjesti |date=1904 |publisher=Društvo sv.Jeronima |pages=42–43 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H80JAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ga%C5%A1par+Alapi%C4%87+Bitka+kod+Stubice+%229.+velja%C4%8De+1573.%22&pg=PA42 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=hr}}</ref> Rebellion leaders Matija Gubec and Ivan Pasanec are taken as prisoners of war for a trial for treason at [[Zagreb]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Fourth War of Religion]]: France's Marshal [[Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency|Henri de Montmorency]], begins the [[Sommières#Siege of Sommières 1573|Siege of Sommières]] in southern France. The [[Huguenots]], French Protestants, hold out for almost two months against Montmorency's Catholic troops.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; On orders of the Croatian Viceroy [[Juraj Drašković]], [[Matija Gubec]], the defeated leader of the [[Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt]] is publicly tortured with the placement of a red-hot iron crown on his head, dragged through the streets of Zagreb, and then dismembered.<ref>Oto Lothar et al.''The Land Between: A History of Slovenia'' (Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008) p.214</ref>
* [[February 16]]&ndash;[[March]] &ndash; The [[siege of Noda Castle]] begins near what is now the city of [[Shinshiro]] in Japan, after the leader of the [[Takeda clan]], the warlord [[Takeda Shingen]], is shot by a sniper after offering generous terms of surrender to the [[Tokugawa clan]], led by [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. By March 10, the Noda Castle surrenders.<ref>Stephen Turnbull, ''Battles of the Samurai'' (Arms and Armour Press, 1987) p.78</ref>
* [[February 23]]&ndash; In the province of Munster in Ireland, the first Desmond Rebellion, led by [[James FitzMaurice FitzGerald]], cousin of the Earl of Desmond, ends at [[Kilmallock]] as FitzGerald makes a humiliating surrender to [[John Perrot]], the provincial leader.<ref>"Desmond, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Vol. 8 (11th ed.), ed. by Hugh Chisholm (Cambridge University Press, 1911) pp. 98–99</ref> 
* [[March 7]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)]] is ended by a peace treaty, confirming the transfer of control of [[Cyprus]] from the [[Republic of Venice]] to the [[Ottoman Empire]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ágoston |first1=Gábor |title=The Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe |date=12 September 2023 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-20539-7 |page=245 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zS0EAAAQBAJ&dq=Ottoman%E2%80%93Venetian+War+cyprus+dalmatia+%227+march+1573%22&pg=PA245 |access-date=14 January 2024 |language=en}}</ref> and also confirming Turkish occupation of the more fertile region of [[Dalmatia]].