* 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1630 )

His work at the completion of Pitti Palace, commissioned by Eleonora of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, is one of his most celebrated achievements ( 1558 – 1570 ), respecting the original style of Filippo Brunelleschi.

Gaspar da Cruz ( c. 1520 – 1570 ), who worked all over the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia, was probably the first Christian missionary to preach ( unsuccessfully ) in Cambodia.

He served briefly in the Northern Rebellion ( 1569 – 1570 ), and in 1585 he joined the Earl of Essex in Flanders during the Anglo-Spanish War and commanded a cavalry company, but he quit the field before seeing action.

* 1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

* Ippolita Gonzaga ( 13 November 1503 – 16 March 1570 ), a nun.

* 1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. 1570 )

* 1570 – Aonio Paleario, Italian humanist ( b. 1500 )

* 1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician ( d. 1631 )

* 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.

Since antiquity in various parts of the world, and since the 17th century in England, it had been known that citrus fruit had an antiscorbutic effect, when John Woodall ( 1570 – 1643 ), an English military surgeon of the British East India Company recommended them but their use did not become widespread.

Their authority began to rise with Fakhr ad-Din I, who was permitted by Ottoman authorities to organize his own army, and reached its peak with Fakhr ad-Din II ( 1570 – 1635 ).

The Peace Party, however, had its own armed forces – scattered bands of household troops ( Hofleute ) under diverse command, which only united in action in 1565 ( Battle of Pärnu, 1565 and Siege of Reval, 1565 ), in 1570 – 1571 ( Siege of Reval, 1570-1571 ; 30 weeks ), and in 1574 – 1576 ( first on Sweden ’ s side, then came the sale of Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of the territory to Tsardom of Russia ).

Prithvi Narayan Shah ( c. 1769 – 1775 ), with whom we move into the modern period of Nepal's history, was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah ( 1559 – 1570 ), the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha.

* 1570 – The All Saints ' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.

* 1570 – James Whitelocke, English judge ( d. 1632 )

* 1501 – Yi Hwang, Korean Confucian scholar ( d. 1570 )

* 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian ( b. 1496 )

An island called " Don Garcia " appears on the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius ( Antwerp 1570 ), together with " Dos Compagnos ", slightly to the north.

1570 world map by Abraham Ortelius.

It was taken up by his followers, the French cosmographer Oronce Fine in his world map of 1531, and the Flemish cartographers Gerard Mercator in 1538 and Abraham Ortelius in 1570.

Abraham Ortelius's 1570 map of Denmark including parts on the Scandinavian peninsula.

Mercator took the word atlas to describe a collection of maps, and encouraged Abraham Ortelius to compile the first modern world atlas – Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – in 1570.

In 1570 ( May 20 ) Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp published 53 maps created by Abraham Ortelius under the title Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the " first modern atlas ".

In 1570 ( May 20 ) Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp published 53 maps created by Abraham Ortelius under the title Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the " first modern atlas ".

Written by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570, in Antwerp, it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved.

Great Zimbabwe appears on Abraham Ortelius ' 1570 map Africae Tablua Nova, rendered " Simbaoe ".

** Abraham Azulai, Kabbalistic author ( born c. 1570 )

On this 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius, Cataio is located inland of China ( referring to today's Guangdong ) and Chequan ( Zhejiang ), and borders on " Tibet | Thebet " in the southwest and " Kumul ( city ) | Camul " in the west.

Therefore, it would not be uncommon for 16th-century map to apply the label " China " just to the coastal region already well known to the Europeans ( e. g., just Guangdong on Abraham Ortelius ' 1570 map ), and to place the mysterious Cathay somewhere inland.

A 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius shows the location of " Salofki ".

The first maps to include the islands were prepared by Abraham Ortelius and Mercator around 1570.

Historical map of the world by Abraham Ortelius | Ortelius, 1570 CE

* Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum 1584 and 1598 ( first published 1570 )

Extract from Abraham Fleming's translation of John Caius's description, dated 1570, of the " Mastiue or Bandogge ".

Part of Abraham Ortelius atlas from 1570, showing " Norvmbega " among other more or less mythical names for various areas ( as well as several phantom islands ).

Nasi's relative Abraham Beneviste ( Righetto Marrano ) was arrested in 1570, on charges of having set fire to the Venetian Arsenal on Nasi's instigation.

" Camul " ( Kumul ) shown in the middle or Asia, halfway between " Samarkand | Samarchand " and " Cathay | Cataio ", on a 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius

* Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ( Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570 – 1612 )

In 1570 a map by Ortelius showed the imagined link between the proposed continent of Antarctica and South America.

On May 20, 1570, Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp issued Ortelius ’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the " first modern atlas " ( of 53 maps ).

World map by Ortelius, 1570, incorporating new discoveries by Europeans

The Ribero maps of the 1520s and 1530s, the Ortelius map of 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map of 1599 (‘ the best map of the sixteenth century ’) are only a few better-known examples.