The Pagoda of Cishou Temple
In the year 1576, Hungarian Transylvanian Prince Stephen Báthory is crowned king of Poland (May 1), English navigator Martin Frobisher sights Greenland (Jul 11), Mughal Empire annexes Bengal (Jul 12), Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp, nearly destroying it (Nov 4), James Burbage opens London’s first permanent public playhouse, The Theatre (Dec), the city of Laihia in Finland is founded, the Pagoda of Cishou Temple in Beijing is completed - and all these fine people were born:
1576-0104 Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria* House of Habsburg - Graz (1599/23)
1576-0105 Anne Turner* (b Norton) murderer – Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England (1615/39)
1576-0112 Petrus Scriverius* writer and scholar on the history of the Low Countries - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1660/84)
1576-0202 Alix Le Clerc* beatified French Catholic nun/foundress - Remiremont, Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire (1622/45)
1576-0210 Festus Hommius* Dutch theologian - Jelsum, Friesland (1642/66)
1576-0229 Antonio Neri* priest/chemist/glassmaker – Florence (1614/38)
1576-0314 Eric of Lorraine* count/ Bishop of Verdun - Nancy, Kingdom of France (1623/47)
1576-0331 Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau* the first Dutch born member of the House of Orange-Nassau - Delft (1644/67)
1576-0524 Elizabeth Carey* Lady Berkeley/courtier/patron of the arts - England (1635/58)
1576-0527 Caspar Schoppe* Catholic scholar/ controversialist - Neumarkt in der Oberplatz, Holy Roman Empire (1649/73)
1576-0606 Giovanni Diodati* Italian Calvinist theologian/translator (the Bible) - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1649/73)
1576-0615 Giovanni Battista Viola* painter - Bologna, Papal States (1622/46)
1576-0703 Duchess Anna of Prussia* spokesperson of the Lutherans/mother of Maria Eleonora - Königsberg, Duchy of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1625/49)
1576-0716 Caspar Augspurger* German entrepreneur/bookseller - Nördlingen (1636/59)
1576-0913 Count Bruno III von Mansfeld* soldier/ Maltese Knight - Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire (1644/67)
1576-0922 Philipp of Bavaria* German cardinal - Munich, Bavaria (1598/21)
1576-1007 John Marston (B) playwright/ poet/satirist - Wardington, Oxfordshire, England (1634/57)
1576-1012 Thomas Dudley* colonial magistrate/governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony/the chief founder of Newtowne (later Cambridge, MA) - Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England (1653/76)
1576-1030 Enrico Caterino Davila* historian/ diplomat - Piove di Sacco, Republic of Venice (1631/54)
1576-1117 Roque González y de Santa Cruz* Jesuit priest/the first missionary among the Guarani people in Paraguay - Asunción, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire (1628/51)
1576-1127 Shimazu Tadatsune* 島津 忠恒 Lord of Satsuma/the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom - Japan (1638/61)
1576-1208 Johannes Kromayer* German theologian/school reformer - Döbeln (1643/66)
1576-1220 Jan Sarkander* beatified Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest - Skoczów, Silesia, Crown of Bohemia (1620/43)
Updated 26.8.2022
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