1575

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s
Years:	1572 1573 1574 - 1575 - 1576 1577 1578

1575 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1575 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1575

Edmund Grindal succeeds Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury.
William I of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon.
Portugal founds the city of Luanda in Angola.
William I of Orange founds the University of Leiden.
Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Abraham Ortelius becomes geographer to Philip II of Spain.
First known self-portrait is painted by Nicholas Hilliard.
The bubonic plague decimates Venice.
Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, wrote about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China; in this year he wrote about the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese drew lots to determine which days of the year were most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

January
- Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (died 1591)
- Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples (died 1624)
February 4 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (died 1629)
March 5 - William Oughtred, English mathematician (died 1660)
May 30 - Diego Salcedo, Spanish bishop (died 1644)
August 14 - Robert Hayman, English-born poet (died 1629)
November 4 - Guido Reni, Italian painter (died 1642)
date unknown
- Jakob Böhme, German mystic (died 1624)
- David Calderwood, Scottish divine and historian (died 1650)
- Anna Kostka, Polish noblewoman (died 1635)
- Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (died 1645)
- William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (died 1622)
- Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (died 1615)
- Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (died 1626)
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (died 1608)
probable
- Giambattista Basile, Italian poet (died 1632)
- Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet (died 1633)
- Samuel Purchas, English travel writer (died 1626)

See also Category: 1575 births.

February 21 - Claude of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France (born 1547)
March 11 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (born 1520)
March 15 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (born 1527)
March 24 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (born 1488)
May 17 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1504)
June 3 - Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico (born c. 1539)
July 14 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (born 1505)
September 17 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (born 1504)
December 23 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese retainer (born 1531)
December 31 - Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (born 1502)
date unknown
- James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (born 1516)
- Takeda Nobukado, Japanese nobleman
- Constantio Varoli, Italian anatomist (born 1543)
- Limahong, Chinese pirate

See also Category: 1575 deaths.

The conclusion of the events of the film Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa takes place in 1575.af:1575