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Everything about 1578 totally explainedYear 1578 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1578
Undated
Martin Frobisher holds the first celebration of Thanksgiving by Europeans in North America at Newfoundland by the Frobisher Expedition.
Sonam Gyrso receives from prince Atlan Khan the title of Talaï, and becomes the third Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Battle of Wenden: The Russians are defeated by the Swedes, who proceed to take Polotsk.
The Ottoman Empire conquers Abkhazia.
The sixth and so far last outbreak of the sweating sickness occurs in England.
Emperor Sarsa Dengel of Ethiopia kills Bahr negus Yeshaq, finally ending his rebellion.
Births
March 2 - George Sandys, English traveller (d. 1644)
April 1 - William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
April 14 - King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
May 16 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
July 9 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
August 5 - Charles de Luynes, first duke of Chaulnes (d. 1621)
August 17 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (d. 1660)
November 1 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
December 2 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (d. 1640)
date unknown
- Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (d. 1650)
- Catharina Belgica of Nassau, regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (d. 1648)
- Yamada Arinaga, Japanese retainer of the Shimazu clan (d. 1668)
- Benedetto Castelli, Italian scientist (d. 1643)
- Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer (d. 1640)
- Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (d. 1625)
- Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (d. 1650)
- Samuel Jordan, American colonial legislator (d. 1623)
- Grzegorz IV Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (d. 1613)
- François Ravaillac, killer of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
- Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (d. 1632)
- Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyo (d. 1604)
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Deaths
February 5 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1510)
March 7 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
March 29 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
March 29 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
April 14 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1535)
April 19 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
June 20 - Thomas Doughty, English explorer (executed)
August 4
August 11 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
October 1 - Don John of Austria, military leader (b. 1547)
date unknown
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