1571
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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.

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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)
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