     __notoc__ year 1575 (mdlxxv) was a common year starting on saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;june === * january 21 &ndash; queen elizabeth i of england grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to thomas tallis and william byrd. * february 8 &ndash; william i of orange founds leiden university. * february 13 &ndash; henry iii of france is crowned at reims. * february 14 &ndash; henry iii of france marries louise de lorraine-vaudÃ©mont. * june 24 &ndash; william i of orange marries charlotte of bourbon. * june 28 &ndash; battle of nagashino: oda nobunaga defeats takeda katsuyori in japan's first 'modern' battle. === july&ndash;december === * july 7 &ndash; raid of the redeswire: sir john carmichael defeats sir john forster. last battle between england and scotland. * july 26 &ndash; edmund grindal succeeds matthew parker as archbishop of canterbury. * august 5 &ndash; henry sidney is appointed lord lieutenant of ireland. * october 10 &ndash; battle of dormans: catholic forces under henry i, duke of guise defeat the protestants, capturing philippe de mornay among others. * october 22 &ndash; city of "villa de la asunsion" (today aguascalientes (aguascalientes) is founded in new spain by permission from philip ii of spain. * december 15 &ndash; stephen bÃ¡thory becomes king of poland. * december 16 &ndash; valdivia earthquake. === date unknown === * russians occupy pernau in western estonia and the fortress of weissenstein. * portugal founds the city of luanda, angola. * seat of the audiencia real in chile moves from concepciÃ³n to santiago. * abraham ortelius becomes geographer to philip ii of spain. * the bubonic plague decimates venice. * gaspar da cruz, a portuguese dominican friar, writes about his travels to the ming dynasty of china, including the chinese civil service handbook the bureaucratic system of the ming dynasty, and how the chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon. == births == * january &ndash; elizabeth cecil, 16th baroness de ros (d. 1591) * february 4 &ndash; [[pierre de bÃ©r
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