Editing 1576 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Martín Enríquez de Almanza]], Viceroy of [[New Spain]], founds the settlement of [[León, Guanajuato|León]], in what is later the state of Guanajuato in Mexico.
* [[January 20]] &ndash; The establishment of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau]].
* [[January 25]] &ndash; Portuguese explorer [[Paulo Dias de Novais]] founds the settlement of ''São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda'' on the southwestern coast of Africa, now [[Luanda]], capital of [[Angola]].<ref>{{cite book|author=W. Martin James|title=Historical Dictionary of Angola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZtJKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR39|date=1 March 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-5381-1123-9|pages=39|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Henry IV of France|King Henry of Navarre]], captive in France since 1572 and alive only because he converted to Catholicism, escapes to [[Tours]] and formally reverts to the Protestant faith. Dupuy, Trevor N.; Johnson, Curt; Bongard, David L. (1995).<ref>"Henry IV of France", in ''The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography'', ed. by Trevor N. Dupuy, et al. (Castle Books, 1995) p.326</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Peter Wentworth]], a Puritan M.P. of the [[Parliament of England]], is arrested in the middle of giving an address criticizing "rumours and messages" given to suppress freedom of speech. When he says that "the devil was the first author of them, from whom proceedeth nothing but wickedness", he is interrupted and taken to the [[Tower of London]] for imprisonment.<ref>''Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, 1558-1581'' [vol. I], ed. T.E. Hartley (University of Leicester Press, 1981) p.422</ref>
* [[March 11]] &ndash; The city of [[Fez, Morocco|Fez]], part of the [[Saadi Sultanate]] in what is now Morocco [[Capture of Fez (1576)|is captured by Ottoman forces]] led by [[Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi|Abd al-Malik]], in an attempt to overthrow the Sultan [[Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi|Muhammed al-Mutawakkil]] and to make the Sultanate a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.<ref>"Saʿdids", by Chantal de la Véronne, in ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'' (Brill, 2012)</ref>