Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s

Years: 1566 1567 1568 1569 1570 - 1571 - 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576

Events

• January 11 - Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
• January 23 - The Royal Exchange opens in London.
• Crimean Tartars from the Ottoman Empire seize and burn Moscow, capitol of Russia.
• October 7 Battle of Lepanto - Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

• Michael Praetorius, german composer between the music styles renaissance und baroque (perhaps born in 1572)
• Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of French king, Henri IV
• December 27 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer

• Abati, italian artist
• Titu_Cusi, Incan Ruler