1574 year

• May - The beginning of the siege of the Spaniards of Leiden. October - The Spaniards unsuccessfully moved away from Leiden. The battle of Mooc (Geldern).
• 1574-1589 - King of France Henry III .
• The Grand Duke of Tuscany becomes Francesco I.
• Maximilian forbade the nobles of Austria and the Czech Republic to accept fugitive peasants from Hungary.
• Spring - The Turkish army was defeated by Moldovans and Ukrainian Cossacks. Moldavian and Cossack detachments occupied Bucharest , besieged Braila and Bender. The Turks moved a new large army. The boyars with their troops began to go over to their side. The Turks defeated John Voda. The sack of Moldova.
• Founded Ufa .
• Founded by Lovozero .
• The first mention of the village of Chupa ( Loukhsky district , Karelia )

• Armenia became independent from the Ottomans .
• The Turks sent to Tunisia a significant fleet with an army that ousted the Spaniards. The transformation of Tunisia into the province (pashalyk) of Turkey.
• King of the Congo, with the help of the Portuguese, defeated the Yaga tribes.
• 1574-1605 - Tsar of Kakheti Alexander II.
• The Siberian Khan Kuchum broke vassal relations with Russia.
• Joining the Mughal Empire of Ahmedabad.
• 1574-1575 - Accession to the Mughal Empire of Bengal.
• 1574-1575 - Reforms of Padishah Akbar . Transfer of in-kind taxes to cash in the central part of the country. Unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the system of jaggirs.
• Unsuccessful Chinese uprising in the Philippines. Chinese merchants expelled from the Philippines.

See also: Category: Born in 1574

• May 6 - Innocent X , pope from September 15, 1644 to January 7, 1655 .
• September 18 - Claudio Achillini - Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, teacher and lawyer.
• Anna Danish is the Queen Consort of Scotland , England and Ireland , the wife of King James I (VI) .
• Maria Anna of Bavaria is the first wife of Archduke Ferdinand .
• Wilby, John - English composer, author of madrigals .
• Fludd, Robert - English physician, mystic philosopher, astrologer.
• Frederick IV - Elector of the Palatinate from 1583 to 1610 .
• Feng Manlong is a Chinese writer.

See also: Category: Deaths in 1574

• Amar Das is the third Sikh guru.
• Beikelar, Joachim - Flemish artist of the late Renaissance .
• Vasari, Giorgio - Italian painter, architect and writer. The author of the famous Biographies, the founder of modern art history .
• Charles IX is the penultimate king of France from the Valois dynasty, since December 5, 1560 . The son of King Henry II and Catherine de Medici .
• Cosimo I is the Grand Duke of Tuscan . The first representative of the Medici sideline led by Florence.
• Margaret of France - French princess , daughter of King Francis I , representative of the Valois dynasty, wife of Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy , Duchess of Berria since 1550 , Duchess of Savoy since 1559 .
• Menendez de Aviles, Pedro de - Spanish admiral, a famous fighter with robbery at sea . In 1565 he founded the first permanent European settlement in North America - St. Augustine . First Governor of Spanish Florida .
• Retik, Georg Joachim von - German mathematician and astronomer .
• Selim II - the eleventh sultan of the Ottoman Empire , ruled in 1566 - 1574 . The son of Sultan Suleiman I the "Magnificent" and Roxolana .
• Hemskerk, Martin van - Dutch Renaissance artist.
• Eustahio, Bartolomeo - an Italian doctor and anatomist, was a papal life doctor and professor of anatomy at the Sapienza Roman school.