1576

1576 (MDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1576th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 576th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1570s decade. As of the start of 1576, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1573 1574 1575 – 1576 – 1577 1578 1579

1576 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1576 MDLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2329
Armenian calendar	1025 ԹՎ ՌԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6326
Balinese saka calendar	1497–1498
Bengali calendar	983
Berber calendar	2526
English Regnal year	18 Eliz. 1 – 19 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2120
Burmese calendar	938
Byzantine calendar	7084–7085
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4272 or 4212     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4273 or 4213
Coptic calendar	1292–1293
Discordian calendar	2742
Ethiopian calendar	1568–1569
Hebrew calendar	5336–5337
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1632–1633
- Shaka Samvat	1497–1498
- Kali Yuga	4676–4677
Holocene calendar	11576
Igbo calendar	576–577
Iranian calendar	954–955
Islamic calendar	983–984
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 4 (天正４年)
Javanese calendar	1495–1496
Julian calendar	1576 MDLXXVI
Korean calendar	3909
Minguo calendar	336 before ROC 民前336年
Nanakshahi calendar	108
Thai solar calendar	2118–2119
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1702 or 1321 or 549     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1703 or 1322 or 550

Events

• August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.