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January 23 – The assassination of Scottish regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, by James Hamilton, the first known shooting of a national leader, throws Scotland into civil war.
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1566 Selim II, son of Suleiman, becomes the new Ottoman sultan. He is untrained in government or military affairs, unlike his two older brothers, both of whom betrayed Suleiman. Selim II is the beginning of disinteres...
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"Stewart, James, first earl of Moray (1531/2–1570)", by Mark Loughlin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) accessed January 24, 2011
Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I. He decreed that Elizabeth was a pretender to the throne of England and that any Catholics who followed her laws would be executed. This was a plot to depose Elizabeth and replac...
Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, was put to death. The Battle of Arnay-le-Duc ended the Third War of Religion and forced Charles IX of France to sign a peace treaty. Check most memorable events 1570 AD.
Jan 23, 2026 · On a cold January morning in 1570, a single gunshot echoed through the streets of Linlithgow and across Scottish history. James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray—regent of Scotland and guardian of the infant k...
February 4 – The Spanish Jesuit missionaries of the Ajacán Mission, established on the Virginia Peninsula of North America in 1570, are massacred by local Native Americans.
