Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1568 Tribunal of Blood

1569 Union of Lublin
unites Poland and
Lithuania

1571 Battle of Lepanto

1572 Sea-beggars seize
Brill and Flushing,
marking start of the
Revolt of the Netherlands
1574 Relief of Leyden by
sea-beggars

1576 “Spanish Fury” at
Antwerp

1579 Union of Utrecht;
peace of Arras

1580 Drake completes
circumnavigation; Philip
II of Spain occupies
Portugal

1583 Gilbert claims
Newfoundland for
England; Linschoten sails
for India

1585 Drake raids Spanish
possessions in New
World; first attempt to
found colony in Virginia;
Spanish under Farnese
capture Antwerp

1586 Battle of Zutphen
1587 Drake’s raid on
Cádiz

1588 Spanish Armada;
assassination of duke of
Guise; Journée des
Barricades (Paris);
Cavendish completes
circumnavigation

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1568 Antwerp Polyglot

Bible begins publication;

St. John of the Cross

founds community of

reformed Carmelite friars

1569 Northern Rebellion

in England

1570 Elizabeth I of

England

excommunicated; Peace

of St. Germain

1571 Synod of Emden

1572 Massacre of St.

Bartholomew; Gregory

XIII pope

1575 English College at

Rome founded;

Bohemian Confession

1577 Formula of

Concord

1578 Matteo Ricci begins

missionary journeys in

the East

1580 Lutheran Book of

Concord published

1585 Sixtus V pope

1588 Start of Marprelate

controversy

1569 Cosimo I of

Florence created grand

duke of Tuscany

1572 Sigismund II, last

Jagellon king of Poland,

dies

1574 Henry III king of

France (→1589)

1576 Rudolf II becomes

emperor (→1612)

1578 Alessandro Farnese

appointed governor of

Netherlands

1580 Carol Emmanuele I

duke of Savoy (→1630)

1583 Emperor Rudolf II

moves his capital to

Prague

1584 Assassination of

William I the Silent of

Orange

1587 Execution of Mary,

Queen of Scots

1569 Mercator projection

used in Mercator’s world

chart

1571 Ortelius’s Theatrum

orbis terrarum published

1572 New star

discovered by Tycho

Brahe

1576 Tycho Brahe begins

to build his observatory

on Hven

1582 Gregorian calendar

reform

1585 First part of

Mercator’s Atlas

published; Stevin’s De

tiende published

1570 Palladio’s Quattro

libri dell’ architettura

published

1571 Bibiotheca

Laurenziana opened to

public

1572 Camões’ Os

Lusíadas published

1573 Veronese’s Feast in

the House of Levi

1577 El Greco moves to

Spain

c 1579 Palladio

commissioned to build

Teatro Olimpico

(Vicenza)

1580 First two books of

Montaigne’s Essais

published

1581 Tasso’s

Gerusalemme liberata

published

1587 Marlowe’s

Tamburlaine acted

1570

1580