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1578 - Events. January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. Don John begins to recover control of the French-speaking Southern Netherlands August 4 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian I of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. October 1 - Alexander Farnese, Pri ...

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1578 - Events

January 31 - Battle of Gemblours - Spanish forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch. Don John begins to recover control of the French-speaking Southern Netherlands
August 4 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian I of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
October 1 - Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, succeeds Don John as Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands.
Martin Frobisher held the first celebration of Thanksgiving by Europeans in North American at Newfoundland by the Frobisher Expedition.
Tibet - Sonam Gyrso receives from prince Atlan Khan the title of "Talaï" and becomes the third Dalai Lama.
Battle of Wenden - The Russians are defeated by the Swedes, who proceed to take Polotsk.
The Ottoman Empire conquers Abkhazia.
Sixth and so far the last outbreak of the sweating sickness in England

1578 - Births

March 2 - George Sandys, English traveller (died 1644)
April 1 - William Harvey, English physician (died 1657)
April 14 - King Philip III of Spain (died 1621)
May 16 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (died 1606)
July 9 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1637)
August 17 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660)
November 1 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (died 1642)
December 2 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (died 1640)
Giambattista Andreini, Italian actor and playwright (died 1650)
Yamada Arinaga, Japanese retainer of Shimazu clan
Benedetto Castelli, Italian scientist (died 1643)
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer (died 1640)
Robert Cushman, Plymouth Colony settler (died 1625)
Matahei Iwasa, Japanese painter (died 1650)
Samuel Jordan, American colonial legislator (died 1623)
Charles de Luynes, first duke of Chaulnes (died 1621)
Grzegorz IV Radziwill, Polish magnate (died 1613)
François Ravaillac, killer of Henry IV of France (died 1610)
Ambrose Rokewood, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (died 1606)
Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland (died 1632)
Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyo (died 1604)

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1578 - Deaths

February 5 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (born 1510)
March 7 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
March 29 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
March 29 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
April 14 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland (born 1535)
April 19 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1530)
August 4 - King Sebastian I of Portugal (born 1554)
August 4 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer (born 1525)
August 11 - Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)
October 1 - Don John of Austria, military leader (born 1547)
Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Italian painter (born 1498)
Cornelis Cort, Dutch engraver (born 1536)
Thomas Doughty, English explorer
Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor (born 1501)
Amago Katsuhisa, Japanese nobleman (born 1553)
Ikeda Katsumasa, Japanese military commander (born 1539)
Juraj Julije Klovic, Dalmatian painter (born 1498)
Pierre Lescot, French architect (born 1510)
Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (born 1520)
Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi, King of Morocco