20th January » The Mexico e.g Mexican city of León, Guanajuato called León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.
5th February » Henry IV of France known as Henry of Navarre :wikt:abjure known as abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
8th March » Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Maya civilization e.g Mayan city of Copán.
1st May » Stephen Báthory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become co-rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
12th January » Petrus Scriverius, Dutch scholar (d. 1660)
31st March » Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (d. 1644)
27th May » Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
6th June » Giovanni Diodati, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1649)
7th October » John Marston (poet) named John Marston, English poet and playwright (d. 1634)
12th October » Thomas Dudley, English-American politician, 3rd List of colonial governors of Massachusetts known as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653)
17th November » Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (d. 1628)
27th November » Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (d. 1638)
Famous Deaths in History for 1576
19th January » Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b. 1494)
10th February » Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar (b. 1532)