1571

1571 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1571 MDLXXI
Ab urbe condita	2324
Armenian calendar	1020 ԹՎ ՌԻ
Assyrian calendar	6321
Balinese saka calendar	1492–1493
Bengali calendar	978
Berber calendar	2521
English Regnal year	13 Eliz. 1 – 14 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2115
Burmese calendar	933
Byzantine calendar	7079–7080
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4267 or 4207     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4268 or 4208
Coptic calendar	1287–1288
Discordian calendar	2737
Ethiopian calendar	1563–1564
Hebrew calendar	5331–5332
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1627–1628
- Shaka Samvat	1492–1493
- Kali Yuga	4671–4672
Holocene calendar	11571
Igbo calendar	571–572
Iranian calendar	949–950
Islamic calendar	978–979
Japanese calendar	Genki 2 (元亀２年)
Javanese calendar	1490–1491
Julian calendar	1571 MDLXXI
Korean calendar	3904
Minguo calendar	341 before ROC 民前341年
Nanakshahi calendar	103
Thai solar calendar	2113–2114
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Horse) 1697 or 1316 or 544     — to — ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 1698 or 1317 or 545

1571 (MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Events

• January 11 – Austrian nobility is granted Freedom of religion.
• October 7 Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.
• The Ottoman Empire captured the city of Nicosia on the island of Cyprus.

Births

• February 15 – Michael Praetorius, German composer (d. 1621)
• October – Tirso de Molina, Spainish dramatist and poet (d. 1648)
• December 27 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)