Once the revolt proper had started, there were many further instances of clearing churches, some still unofficial and disorderly, but as cities became officially Protestant, increasingly undertaken by official order, like the Amsterdam Alteratie (" Alteration ") of 1578.

In addition, its main church was dismantled in 1578, leading to further decline.

Following Hawkins's appointment as Treasurer of the Navy in 1578, further vessels along similar lines emerged during the next decade.

The first published polyphonic settings of the Symbolum Apostolorum were settings by the French composer Le Brung in 1540, and two further settings by the Spanish composer Fernando de las Infantas in 1578.

A religious experience while hunting in 1578, further increased his interest in the religious traditions of his empire.

Noble hierarchies were further complicated by the creation of chivalric orders — the Chevaliers du Saint-Esprit ( Knights of the Holy Spirit ) created by Henry III in 1578 ; the Ordre de Saint-Michel created by Louis XI in 1469 ; the Order of Saint Louis created by Louis XIV in 1696 — by official posts, and by positions in the Royal House ( the Great Officers of the Crown of France ), such as grand maître de la garde-robe ( the grand master of the royal wardrobe, being the royal dresser ) or grand panetier ( royal bread server ), which had long ceased to be actual functions and had become nominal and formal positions with their own privileges.

In 1578, Bodgan Belsky was appointed oruzhnichiy ( оружничий, or keeper of tsar's weapons ) and wouldn't make his way up any further.

King Sebastian, obsessed with his plans for a great crusade against the Kingdom of Fez, assembled a huge fleet in Lagos in 1578.

Only one set of plans exists from the original Havering Palace, courtesy of a survey by Lord Burghley in 1578.

Diplomatic relations were also established with the Ottoman Empire with the chartering of the Levant Company and the dispatch of the first English ambassador to the Porte, William Harborne, in 1578.

* 1578 – George Sandys, English colonist and poet ( d. 1644 )

* 1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral ( b. 1524 )

However, the play's principal source, the Spanish Diana Enamorada, would not be translated into French or English until 1578, meaning that someone basing a play on it that early could only have read it in the original Spanish, and there is no evidence that Oxford spoke this language.

* January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge ( b. 1578 )

* June 3 – William Harvey, English physician ( b. 1578 )

** Everard Digby, English conspirator ( executed ) ( b. 1578 )

** Jane Lumley, English translator ( d. 1578 )

William Harvey ( 1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657 ) was an English physician, who described completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart, though earlier writers had provided precursors of the theory.

On 3 June 1578, the expedition left Plymouth and, sailing by the English Channel, on 20 June reached the south of Greenland, where Frobisher and some of his men managed to land.

* Composer William Byrd ( 1539 / 40-1623 ), " the father of English music ", lived as a Catholic recusant in Hayes and Harlington 1578 – 88 ; a primary school in the area bears his name

* John Taylor ( poet ) ( 1578 – 1653 ), English poet

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry ( 1578 – 14 January 1640 ) was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.

John Taylor ( 24 August 1578 – 1653 ) was an English poet who dubbed himself " The Water Poet ".

Parsons accompanied Edmund Campion ( who was later canonized ) on Campion's mission to aid English Catholics in 1578.

The six year exploration license Gilbert had secured by letters patent from the crown in 1578 was on the point of expiring, when he succeeded in 1583 in raising significant sums from English Catholic investors.

In 1578 he was knighted and " granted " nobility, in fact " officially " downgraded from " pretended " royalty, as the English saw it.

John Lyly ( Lilly or Lylie ; c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606 ) was an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit ( 1578 ) and Euphues and His England ( 1580 ).

Diana was published in Spanish in 1542, translated into French in 1578, and published in English in 1598, although the translation by Nicholas Collin was made some years earlier, probably in 1582.

That of the latter, which is to be found in the Hecatommithi, was almost certainly read by Shakespeare in the original Italian ; while that of the former is probably to be traced to George Whetstone's Promos and Cassandra ( 1578 ), an adaptation of Cinthio's story, and to his Heptamerone ( 1582 ), which contains a direct English translation.

On 12 August 1578, the forces of his opponents faced his army at Falkirk, but a truce was negotiated by two Edinburgh ministers, James Lawson and David Lindsay, and the English resident Robert Bowes.

) 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 ).

Such are: Allarme to England ( 1578 ); A New Description of Ireland ( 1610 ); and The Irish Hubbub, or the English Hue and Crie ( 1617 ), in which he also inveighs against the use of tobacco.

First attested in English in 1578, the word medal is derived from the Middle French médaille, itself from Italian medaglia, and ultimately from the post-classical Latin medalia, meaning a coin worth half a denarius.

In 1578 the deputy-admiral, Richard Vaughan, accused him of tyranny, subversion of justice, and dealing with pirates ; but Perrot retained the confidence of the Crown, for he became commissioner for piracy in Pembrokeshire in 1578, and in the following year received the command of a naval squadron charged with the interception of Spanish ships on the Irish coast.

The first of these, Sir Thomas Stukley's projected 1578 Irish expedition, which Sanders was to have accompanied with the blessings and assistance of the pope, was diverted to Morocco during an ill-devised campaign by King Sebastian of Portugal, where Stukley was killed at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578.

It had been sung on many official occasions and at many important events since 1568, such as the siege of Haarlem in 1573 and the ceremonial entry of the Prince of Orange into Brussels on 18 September 1578.

Particularly significant Tudor years have been portrayed several times, such as 1588 ( the Spanish Armada ), 1535 ( Dissolution of the Monasteries ), 1553 ( Lady Jane Grey ) and 1578 ( visit of Queen Elizabeth I to Suffolk ).

** Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor ( d. 1578 )

It was granted to Sir Nicholas Malbie, Elizabethan Governor of Connaught, in 1578.

In addition to the ceiling creations and wall paintings, Veronese also produced altarpieces ( The Consecration of Saint Nicholas, 1561 – 2, London's National Gallery ), paintings on mythological subjects ( Venus and Mars, 1578, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ), and portraits ( Portrait of a Lady, 1555, Louvre ).

In 1578 Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who had already endowed several scholarships to the college, donated £ 200 ( roughly £ 30, 000 now ) for the construction of a new chapel.

In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.

* Sir Nicholas Tufton, 2nd Baronet ( 1578 – 1631 ) ( created Baron Tufton in 1626 and Earl of Thanet in 1628 )

* Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet ( 1578 – 1631 )