1573

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The year 1573 is a common year starting on a Thursday.

Events

January 6, Japan: Shingen Takeda won over Ieyasu Tokugawa and Nobunaga Oda at the Battle of Mikata-Ga-Hara.

February 26, India: Akbar takes Surat.

31 March: in the area of Number of Dios (Colón), Francis Drake and the French corsair Guillaume Le Testu capture the convoys of mules that bring from Panama the gold of Peru. Guillaume the Testu is killed covering Drake's retreat, which can bury 15 tons of silver in the silt of a river and carry a few bags of gold.

13 May, Japan: Shingen Takeda dies and his troops disband. Oda Nobunaga encircled Kyôto, burned his suburbs and then overturned and exiled the last Shogun Ashikaga, Yoshiaki (July). Oda Nobunaga now reigns over more than half of Japan.

6 July, Argentina: Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera founded Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía.

18 July, Japan: Shogun Yoshiaki Ashikaga is deposited by Oda Nobunaga. End of Muromachi military government. Early Tenshō era.

23 August-2 September: end of the conquest of Gujerat by the Moghol Empire.

8 October: the Spaniards of Don Juan of Austria seized Tunis and placed another hafside on the throne.

November 15: Juan de Garay founded Santa Fe in Argentina.

Indian Emperor Akbar abolished slavery for prisoners of war.

Europe

Night from 27 to 28 January: beginning of the Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt led by Matija Gubec.
28 January: Confederation of Warsaw, setting the conditions for the election of the king of Poland by the nobles and establishing respect for religious tolerance. Poland has about 560 Protestant churches. All religious groups are represented and enjoy protection in the high nobility (Calvinists in Lithuania and Krakow, Moravian brothers, Socienians, Lutherans in Eastern Prussia). Beginning of Silver Age in Poland (end in 1648).

9 February: Repression of the Matija Gubec revolt at the Battle of Stubičke Toplice.

11 February: Henri d'Anjou took command of the siege of La Rochelle, without success (late June 26).

7 March: Peace Treaty signed at Constantinople between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Venice ceded Cyprus to Turkey.

17-23 April: Battle of Flessing. Return near Lillo from the fleet of the Spanish general Sancho d'Avila, responsible for supplying the towns of Arnemuiden and Middelburg, besieged by the Dutch.

23 April: Everard Mercurian became general servant of the Society of Jesus (end of 1580).

11 May (Pentecôte): Henry, Duke of Anjou, future King Henry III of France, was elected king of Poland (Henri, end of 1574).

12 July: The Duke of Albe took Haarlem after seven months of siege.
July, Russia: Sayin Bulat, Khan Tatar of Kassimov embraces Christianity as Simeon Bekbulatovich and bears the title of Tsar.

September 10: Henri de Valois takes the oath to Notre-Dame to do res