1571

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.

 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)