1574

Years: 1571 1572 1573 - 1574 - 1575 1576 1577
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1574 in literature

Events

April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde. Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau. Louis is killed.
May 30 - On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III. His mother, Catherine de Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
October 3 - The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.
Murad III succeeds Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

March 7 - John Wilbye, English composer (date of baptism)
May 6 - Pope Innocent X (died 1655)
July 1 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and satirist (died 1656)
August 7 - Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (died 1649)
October 14 - Anne of Denmark, queen of James VI of Scotland (died 1619)
Richard Barnfield, English poet (died 1627)
John Day, English dramatist (died 1640)
Robert Fludd, English Rosicrucian and Paracelsian physicist (died 1637)
Thomas Gataker, English clergyman and theologian (died 1654)
Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1650)
Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman (died 1634)
Claudio Pari, Sicilian composer
Luis Sotelo, Franciscan friar