La Alameda in Seville, Spain. Atop the two columns: Hercules, the mythological founder of Seville, and Julius Caesar, referred to as the restorer of Seville during Roman rule.
In the year 1574, the fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins in France (Feb 23), King Henry of Poland becomes King Henry III of France (May 30), Manila is made the capital of the Spanish East Indies and of the Philippines, which the Spanish Empire would control for the next three centuries (Jun 10), a plot to assassinate John III of Sweden is discovered (Sep), Chinese and Japanese forces attack Manila (Nov 29), but lose there to the Spanish colonial forces, La Alameda in Seville is laid out as Europe’s first public garden - and all these fine people were born:
1574-0117 Robert Fludd* Paracelsian physician/ astrologer/cosmologist - Milgate House, Kent, England (1637/63)
1574-0217 Pedro Téllez-Girón* nobleman/politician - Osuna, Province of Sevilla, Spanish Empire (1624/50)
1574-0304 Carl Gyllenhielm* soldier/politician – Sweden (1650/76)
1574-0305 William Oughtred* Anglican clergyman/mathematician – Eton, Buckinghamshire, England (1660/86)
1574-0307 John Wilbye (B) madrigal composer/poet - Brome, Suffolk, England (1638/64)
1574-0420 Gottlieb Aenetius* German physicist - Königsfeld (1631/57)
1574-0427 Philip Rubens* Flemish antiquarian/librarian/brother of Pieter Paul Rubens - Siegen, Low Countries (1611/37)
1574-0514 Daniel Dumonstier* artist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1646/72)
1574-0514 Francesco Rasi* Italian singer/chitarrone player/composer - Arezzo, Tuscany (1621/47)
1574-0620 Wilhelm Kettler* Duke of Courland - Mitau, Duchy of Courland (1640/65)
1574-0701 Joseph Hall* bishop/ satirist/moralist - Prestop Park, Leicestershire, England (1656/82)
1574-0723 Balthasar I Moretus* Flemish printer - Antwerpen (1641/66)
1574-0724 Thomas Platter the Younger* Swiss botanist/traveler/diarist - Basel (1628/54)
1574-0807 Robert Dudley* explorer/ cartographer/shipbuilder - Richmond Palace, Surrey, England (1649/75)
1574-0830 Albert Szenczi Molnár* Hungarian Calvinist pastor/philosopher/translator - Szenc, Kingdom of Hungary (1634/59)
1574-0906 Luis Sotelo* beatified Franciscan friar/missionary in Japan - Seville, Andalusia, Spanish Empire (1624/49)
1574-0918 Claudio Achillini* philosopher/ mathematician/jurist - Bologna, Papal States (1640/66)
1574-1025 François d’Escoubleau de Sourdis* Catholic prelate/Archbishop of Bordeaux - Châtillon-sur-Sèvre, Poitou, Kingdom of France (1628/)
1574-1104 Erycius Puteanus* Dutch humanist/philologist/encyclopedist - Venlo (1646/71)
1574-1130 Frederick of Solms-Rödelheim* imperial chamberlain/war councillor - Solms, Hesse, Holy Roman Empire (1649/74)
1574-1212 Anne of Denmark* m to King James VI and I/Queen of Scotland/Queen of England and Ireland - Skanderborg Castle, Skanderborg, Denmark-Norway (1619/44)
1574-1215 Samuel Besler* German-Polish composer - Brzeg, Piast dynasty, Holy Roman Empire (1625/50)
Updated 30.3.2023-1
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