* 1576 – The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Ven, Sweden.

The painter Roelandt Savery ( 1576 – 1639 ) entered the St. Luke ’ s guild in Utrecht at about the same time.

* 1638 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma ( b. 1576 )

** Akita Sanesue ( 秋田実季 ; 1576 – 1660 ), daimyo ( feudal ruler )

# Anna of Prussia ( 3 July 1576 – 30 August 1625 ).

* 1576 – Rheticus, Austrian mathematician ( b. 1514 )

* 1532 – Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar ( d. 1576 )

* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

Gerolamo ( or Girolamo, or Geronimo ) Cardano (; ; 24 September 1501 – 21 September 1576 ) was an Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler.

* 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

* 1576 – The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almanza.

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 ).

Finally, perhaps the most influential European lute composer was the Hungarian Bálint Bakfark ( c. 1526 – 30 – 1576 ), whose contrapuntal fantasias were much more difficult and tighter than those of his Western European contemporaries.

* 1574 – 1576: Mohammed II

* 1576 – 1578: Abou Merouane Abd el-Malik

* 1576 – Stefan Batory, the reigning Prince of Transylvania, marries Anna Jagiellon and they become the co-rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

* 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing ( b. 1576 )

* 1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia ( d. 1644 )

* 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar ( b. 1576 )

* 1576 – Eighty Years ' War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.

** Juan de Salcedo, Spanish conquistador ( d. 1576 )

The situation improved for the rebels when Don Requesens died unexpectedly in March 1576, and a large group of Spanish soldiers, not having received their salary in months, mutinied in November of that year and unleashed the Spanish Fury on the city of Antwerp, a tremendous propaganda coup for the Dutch Revolt.

This relatively disciplined capture should not be confused with the bloody events of the Spanish Fury on 4 November 1576.

During the three days long infamous " Spanish Fury " of 1576, Spanish troops attacked and pillaged Antwerp.

* 1576, Rodrigo de Zamorano ( Spanish )

In 1565, reports of huge gold mines in the Cordillera reached the Viceroy of Mexico, which led to the first official Spanish expedition to the Cordillera in 1576.

Juan de Salcedo ( 1549 – March 11, 1576 ) was a Spanish conquistador.

Hard-pressed by the Siamese, to repay his debts, King Sattha ( 1576 – 94 ) surrounded himself with a personal guard of Spanish and Portuguese mercenaries, and in 1593 asked the Spanish governor of the Philippines for aid.

Luis de Requesens Luis de Requesens y Zúñiga also known as Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens ( 1528 – 5 March 1576 ) was a Spanish politician and diplomat.

In the summer of 1575, Requesens ordered Cristobal de Mondragon to attack the Zeeland city of Zierikzee, which surrendered on 2 July 1576 ; however, the Spanish troops mutinied and left Zierikzee.

The Spanish ambassador officially protested against this practice in 1576, since the weapons would have been used against Spanish rule in the Netherlands.

Clusius, as he was known to his contemporaries, published two major original works: his Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia ( 1576 )— is one of the earliest books on Spanish flora — and his Rariorum stirpium per Pannonias observatorum Historiae ( 1583 ) is the first book on Austrian and Hungarian alpine flora.

* 1576: Speculation exists that around this time Spanish explorer Juan Fernández visited New Zealand although this is not generally accepted by most reputable authorities.

Salcedo befriended the small tribe of indigenous valley peoples that resided in the area while Spanish families established a township in 1576.

The Pacification of Ghent, signed on November 8, 1576, was an alliance of the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands for the purpose of driving mutinying Spanish mercenary troops from the country and promoting a peace treaty with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland.

When Spanish troops mutinied because of lack of payment, and sacked the towns of Zierikzee and Aalst, the States-General of the Netherlands was immediately convened by the States of Brabant and Hainaut on September 8, 1576 to deal with the mutinous troops.

Its ratification by the States General on November 8, 1576 was undoubtedly sped up by the Sack of Antwerp by Spanish mutineers of November 4, which concentrated the minds of the waverers wonderfully.

On 4 November 1576, Spanish tercios began the sack of Antwerp, leading to three days of horror among the population of the city, which was the cultural, economic and financial center of the Netherlands.

On 4 November 1576, unpaid Spanish soldiery mutinied: they plundered and burnt the city during what was called the Spanish Fury.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

* Johannes Schreck ( also known as Johannes Terrenz or Terrentius ), explorer ( born 1576 )

English explorer Martin Frobisher landed on the island on July 28, 1576, while on a voyage to discover the fabled Northwest Passage.