* 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

Martin Frobisher landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in August 1576 ; He returned in 1577, claiming it in Queen Elizabeth's name, and in a third voyage tried but failed to found a settlement in Frobisher Bay.

Frobisher Bay is named for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it.

The fearless Martin Frobisher was appointed captain and left England in June 1576, but the quest for a north-west passage proved fruitless: he returned with a cargo of black stone and an Inuit.

On 7 June 1576, financed by the Muscovy Company, Martin Frobisher set sail from Blackwall, seeking the North West Passage.

* 1576: Martin Frobisher of England makes the first of three attempts to find a Northwest Passage, sailing as far as Hudson Strait.

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

However, the first years of the Dutch Republic proved different ( as in hindsight the experience with the States-General since 1576, ably managed by Orange, had proved ).

The Hongan-ji came under siege from the forces of Oda Nobunaga in 1576, but, due in part to its position on the coast, managed to hold out for five years, making this the longest siege in Japanese history.

After losing the throne to Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I in 1576, the ousted Sultan Abu Abdallah Mohammed II had been able to flee to Portugal and to convince King Sebastian to field a military campaign against Morocco.

Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

* 1576 – John Marston, English writer ( d. 1634 )

* While returning from Italy in 1576 Edward de Vere first encountered a cavalry division outside of Paris that was being led by a German duke and then pirates in the English Channel.

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

William Ames ( Latin: Guilielmus Amesius ) ( 1576 – 14 November 1633 ) was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist.

* Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Baronet of England ( 1576 – 1657 ), Baronet and Surveyor of the English Royal Navy

* November 14 – William Ames, English philosopher ( b. 1576 )

* June 25 – John Marston, English dramatist ( b. 1576 )

** Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, English nobleman ( died 1576 )

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio ( 1488 / 1490 – 27 August 1576 ) known in English as Titian () was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

Heidelberg Castle and the Hortus Palatinus commissioned by Frederick, and designed by English gardener Inigo Jones ( 1573 – 1652 ) and French engineer Salomon de Caus ( 1576 – 1626 ).

The Middle English form of the word is wēld, and the modern spelling is a reintroduction of the Anglo-Saxon form attributed to its use by William Lambarde in his A Perambulation of Kent of 1576.

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG ( 16 September 1541 – 22 September 1576 ), an English nobleman and general.

) It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French ( 1560 ), English ( 1576 ), Dutch ( 1579 ) after Flanders came under Dutch rule ( 1578 ), German ( 1617 ), and Italian ( 1622 ).

The English almanac maker, Thomas Digges, delineated the spheres of the new cosmological system in his Perfit Description of the Caelestiall Orbes … ( 1576 ).

* Basil Brook ( 1576 – c. 1646 ), English ironmaster, see Basil Brooke ( metallurgist )

* Basil Brooke ( metallurgist ) ( 1576 – 1646 ), English ironmaster and metallurgist

John Marston ( baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634 ) was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

The Poor Law of 1576 formed the basis of English bastardy law.

John Carver ( c. 1576 – April 1621 ) was a wealthy London merchant and early American colonist.

He left for Spain during December 1576 to be with his brother in Seville, staying in Spain until 1580 when he got a job working with another merchant in Lisbon.

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

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 ).

History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.

A widespread legend concerns an incident at Howth, which apparently occurred in 1576.

Before his death he had the upper terrace widened to hold a larger parterre and enclosed with latticework and pavilions ; his successor, Louis XII, built a gallery round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France.

Wroxham Bridge was rebuilt of brick and stone in 1619, replacing a bridge built in 1576 which itself replaced an earlier, probably wooden, structure.

Another fragment of his vast plan was the work entitled De Helvetiorum republica, which appeared at Zürich in 1576, just before his death.

He then became pastor of Stammheim ( same canton ) until 1561, when he retired to Zürich ( of which he had been made a burgher in 1548 ), where he lived in retirement till his death in 1576.

Mention is also made of a commentary on Abot, from which Jehiel Morawtschik, in his Minḥah Ḥadashah, written in 1576 after a manuscript of the year 1145, makes quotations.

In 1576 the University of Helmstedt was founded, which was the largest university of protestant Germany.

It was in this context that the massacre came to be seen as a product of Machiavellianism, a view greatly influenced by the Huguenot Innocent Gentillet, who published his Discours contre Machievel in 1576, which was printed in ten editions in three languages over the next four years.

In 1576 Tomson added L ' Oiseleur's notes for the Epistles, which came from Beza's Greek and Latin edition of the Bible ( 1565 and later ).

This enabled the Dutch rebels to turn the tide in favour of the Dutch Revolt, which had been in ever deeper trouble since 1576.

In 1576, viceroy Martín Enréquez de Almanza set aside two city blocks on which to build the city government offices, but they were never built here.

The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576.

The Estates of Blois demanded in 1576, that the king be bound to turn into law any proposition voted in identical terms by each of the three orders ; but Henry III would not grant this demand, which would not even have left him a right of veto.

Some historical events were also distorted: most notably Yi's campaign against the Jurchens, which did not happen in 1572 but a few years later, after his 1576 military examination.

However, mention of wine made from aszú grapes had already appeared in the Nomenklatura of Fabricius Balázs Sziksai which was completed in 1576.

However, mention of wine made from botrytised grapes had already appeared in the Nomenklatura of Fabricius Balázs Sziksai, which was completed in 1576.

He probably already had appeared on the stage as an actor when he was bound apprenticed in 1576 for eight years to the stationer John Allde, an apprenticeship from which he was soon released.

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.

The oldest of these is Paisley Grammar which was founded in 1576 and was one of two former grammar schools in the town – alongside the former John Neilson Institution ( latterly John Neilson High School ) founded in 1852.

In 1576 he obtained the important post of pensionary of Rotterdam, an office which carried with it official membership of the States of Holland.