1575

Events of 1575

Edmund Grindal succeeds Matthew Parker as Archbishop of Canterbury.
William I of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon.
Portugal founds the city of Luanda, Angola.
William I of Orange founds the University of Leiden.
Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Abraham Ortelius becomes geographer to Philip II of Spain.
The bubonic plague decimates Venice.
Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, writes about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China; in this year he writes about the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

January
- Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (d. 1591)
- Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna, Spanish viceroy of Sicily and Naples (d. 1624)
February 4 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
March 5 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
May 30 – Diego Salcedo, Spanish bishop (d. 1644)
August 14 – Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629)
November 4 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
date unknown
- Jakob Böhme, German mystic (d. 1624)
- David Calderwood, Scottish divine and historian (d. 1650)
- Anna Kostka, Polish noblewoman (d. 1635)
- Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, successful London merchant (d. 1645)
- William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle (d. 1622)
- Arbella Stuart, Duchess of Somerset (d. 1615)
- Cyril Tourneur, English dramatist (d. 1626)
- Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (d. 1608)
probable
- Giambattista Basile, Italian poet (d. 1632)
- Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet (d. 1633)
- Samuel Purchas, English travel writer (d. 1626)

See also Category: 1575 births.

February 21 – Claude of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France (b. 1547)
March 11 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
March 15 – Annibale Padovano, Italian composer and organist (b. 1527)
March 24 – Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
May 17 – Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
June 3 – Francisco de Ibarra, Spanish explorer and colonial governor in Mexico (b. c. 1539)
June 7 – Sir George Heron, keeper of Redesdale, Sir John Forster's lieutenant, who was killed in the Raid of the Redeswire.
July 14 – Richard Taverner, English Bible translator (b. 1505)
September 17 – Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
December 23 – Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese retainer (b. 1531)
December 31 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
date unknown
- James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (b. 1516)
- Takeda Nobukado, Japanese nobleman
- Constantio Varoli, Italian anatomist (b. 1543)
- Limahong, Chinese pirate

See also Category: 1575 deaths.

The conclusion of the events of the film Kagemusha by Akira Kurosawa takes place in 1575.af:1575