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.

 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