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1576| 1550–1600 | North America, South America, Europe [trade] | New agricultural products are exchanged between the New and Old Worlds. The Spanish introduce potatoes, tomatoes, quinine, cocoa, tapioca, and tobacco to Europe. From Europe, the New World gains barley, oats, rye, sugar cane, cattle, pigs, poultry, rabbits, and horses. | | 1576 | France [political theory] | French political writer Jean Bodin, duc de Alençon, publishes Six Livres de la république/Six Books on the Republic, which describes an ideal government based on a strong monarchy. Its influence can be seen in the theories of sovereignty developed by Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. | | 1576 | Italy [churches and temples] | Work begins on the Church of Il Redentore in Venice, Italy, to a design by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is one of the finest churches of the Italian Renaissance. | | 3 February 1576 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | King Henry III of Navarre escapes from Paris, and returns to Béarn in southwest France and command of the Pyrenean Huguenots (French Protestants), having formally abjured Catholicism at Tours on 5 January in favour of his former Huguenot faith. | | 6 May 1576 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | The Fifth War of Religion in France ends in the Peace of Monsieur, promulgated by the Edict of Beaulieu; the Huguenots (French Protestants) are granted freedom of worship in all places except Paris and are to garrison eight strongholds in Languedoc, Guyenne, Provence, and Dauphiné; a general (and tax) amnesty is proclaimed. Francis, Duke of Alençon, is confirmed as Duke of Anjou, and Johann Casimir, leader of the Palatine Calvinist army, is rewarded with a pension by King Henry III. | | 12 October 1576 | Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy [political events] | The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II dies and is succeeded in all his lands and titles by his son, Rudolph II. A patron of the Jesuits, Rudolph is markedly more supportive of the Catholic Counter-Reformation than the Protestant-leaning Maximilian. | | 4 November 1576 | Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire [Dutch Revolt (1598–1609)] | The renegade Spanish Habsburg army in Brabant storms and sacks Antwerp in the brutal massacre known as ‘the Spanish Fury’. Some 8,000 people die; the unity of the Netherlands in opposition to the Spanish Habsburgs is assured. | | December 1576 | France [French Wars of Religion (1562–80)] | The Sixth War of Religion breaks out in France, even as the Estates General is sitting; operations are mainly in the west. |
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Bassandyne, Thomas
Báthory, Stephen
Belleau, Rémy
Bodenschatz, Erhard
Bodin, Jean
Cardano, Girolamo
Carver, John
Diodati, Giovanni
Dudley, Thomas
Essex, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
| Fernández de Navarrete, Juan
French Wars of Religion (1562–80)
Gascoigne, George
Guidetti, Giovanni
houses of correction
Macque, Giovanni de
Meyer, Gregor
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Paix, Jakob
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| Richard Freedman examines three published collections of
contrafacta chansons by Orlando di Lasso: Thomas Vautrollier's
Recueil du mellange d'Orlande (London, 1570), Jean Pasquier's
Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus (La Rochelle, 1575 and 1576), and
Simon Goulart's Thresor de musique d'Orlande ([Geneva], 1576,
1582, and 1594). He was involved in the pacification of Ireland, 1572-74, and made
his first voyage seeking a Northwest Passage to the Orient in 1576.
Recently developed tree-ring evidence has allowed the levels of
precipitation to be reconstructed for north central Mexico, adding to
the growing body of epidemiologic evidence and indicating that the 1545
and 1576 epidemics of cocoliztli (Nahuatl for "pest") were
indigenous hemorrhagic fevers transmitted by rodent hosts and aggravated
by extreme drought conditions. |