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Year 1571 (MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It is a year in the 1570s.

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Events

January–June

• January 11 – The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.
• January 23 – The Royal Exchange opens in London, England.
• May 24 – Fire of Moscow: Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army under Devlet I Giray.
• June 3 – Following conquest of the Kingdom of Maynila, Spanish Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi makes Manila a city and the capital of the Philippines.
• June 25 – Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire, England.
• June 27 – Establishment of Jesus College "within the City and University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's foundation" in England by Welsh cleric and lawyer Hugh Price.

July–December

• July 25 – St Olave's Grammar School is founded in Tooley Street, London.
• August 1 – Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded by the surrender of Famagusta. Cyprus is established as an Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire and the first Turkish colony moves into the island.
• August 29 – Foundation of Liliw, Laguna, Philippines, by Gat Tayaw, followers and residents as a municipality of Laguna.
• September 28 – The House of Commons of England introduces the first pro forma bill, symbolizing its authority over its own affairs.
• October 7 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.

Date unknown

• Spanish silver mines open in Latin America; thus begins the great silver flow that links the New and Old Worlds.

Births

• January 9 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
• January 27 – Abbas I of Safavid, Shah of Iran (d. 1629)
• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer and writer on music (d. 1621)
• May 11 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (d. 1637)
• September 29 – Caravaggio, Venetian artist (d. 1610)
• October 18 – Wolfgang Ratke, German educationist (d. 1635)
• December 9 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
• December 27 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
• date unknown
  • Henry Ainsworth, English Nonconformist clergyman and scholar (d. 1622)
  • William Bedell, Anglican churchman (d. 1642)
  • Willem Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (d. 1638)
  • Frederick de Houtman, Dutch explorer (d. 1627)
  • Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (d. 1603)
  • Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (d. 1603)
  • Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, Venetian cardinal (d. 1623)
  • Thomas Storer, English poet (d. 1604)
  • Thomas Wintour, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (d. 1606)
  • Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter (d. 1638)

Deaths

• January 3 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• January 9 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• February 12 – Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
• February 13 – Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
• February 14 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
• March 6 – Tsukahara Bokuden, Japanese swordsman (b. 1489)
• March 21 – Hans Asper, Swiss painter (b. 1499)
• April 6 – John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician (b. 1511)
• May 4 – Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian (b. 1511)
• June 1 – John Story, English Catholic (martyred) (b. 1504)
• July 6 – Mori Motonari, Japanese warlord (b. 1497)
• July 15 – Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
• July 17 – Georg Fabricius, German poet (b. 1516)
• September 4 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (b. 1516)
• October 7 – Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, consort of Christian III of Denmark (b. 1511)
• date unknown
  • Titu Cusi, Incan ruler (b. 1529)
  • Jan Tarło, Polish nobleman