1573

1573 (MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Monday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1570 1571 1572 – 1573 – 1574 1575 1576

1573 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1573 MDLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2326
Armenian calendar	1022 ԹՎ ՌԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6323
Balinese saka calendar	1494–1495
Bengali calendar	980
Berber calendar	2523
English Regnal year	15 Eliz. 1 – 16 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2117
Burmese calendar	935
Byzantine calendar	7081–7082
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4269 or 4209     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4270 or 4210
Coptic calendar	1289–1290
Discordian calendar	2739
Ethiopian calendar	1565–1566
Hebrew calendar	5333–5334
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1629–1630
- Shaka Samvat	1494–1495
- Kali Yuga	4673–4674
Holocene calendar	11573
Igbo calendar	573–574
Iranian calendar	951–952
Islamic calendar	980–981
Japanese calendar	Genki 4 / Tenshō 1 (天正元年)
Javanese calendar	1492–1493
Julian calendar	1573 MDLXXIII
Korean calendar	3906
Minguo calendar	339 before ROC 民前339年
Nanakshahi calendar	105
Thai solar calendar	2115–2116
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 1699 or 1318 or 546     — to — ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1700 or 1319 or 547

Events

Births

• January 10 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (died 1624)
• April 17 – Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (died 1651)
• April 26 – Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
• July 15 – Inigo Jones, English architect (died 1652)
• July 25 – Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer and Jesuit (died 1650)
• September 28 – Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian artist (died 1610)
• October 6 – Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (died 1624)
• October 7 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1645)
• Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (died 1621)
• Pietro Carrera, Sicilian chess player, priest and painter (died 1647)
• Robert Catesby, English leader of the Gunpowder Plot (died 1605)
• Odoardo Farnese, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy (died 1626)
• Ukita Hideie, Japanese daimyo (died 1655)
• Richard Johnson, English romance writer (died 1659)
• Johannes Junius, Burgomeister of Bamberg (died 1628)
• John Kendrick, English merchant (died 1624)
• Oeyo, wife of Tokugawa Hidetada
• Juan Pujol, Catalan composer and organist (died 1626)
• Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, natural son of Charles IX of France (died 1650)

Deaths