1574

1574 (MDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1571 1572 1573 – 1574 – 1575 1576 1577

1574 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1574 MDLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2327
Armenian calendar	1023 ԹՎ ՌԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6324
Balinese saka calendar	1495–1496
Bengali calendar	981
Berber calendar	2524
English Regnal year	16 Eliz. 1 – 17 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2118
Burmese calendar	936
Byzantine calendar	7082–7083
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4270 or 4210     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4271 or 4211
Coptic calendar	1290–1291
Discordian calendar	2740
Ethiopian calendar	1566–1567
Hebrew calendar	5334–5335
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1630–1631
- Shaka Samvat	1495–1496
- Kali Yuga	4674–4675
Holocene calendar	11574
Igbo calendar	574–575
Iranian calendar	952–953
Islamic calendar	981–982
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 2 (天正２年)
Javanese calendar	1493–1494
Julian calendar	1574 MDLXXIV
Korean calendar	3907
Minguo calendar	338 before ROC 民前338年
Nanakshahi calendar	106
Thai solar calendar	2116–2117
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1700 or 1319 or 547     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1701 or 1320 or 548

Events

• April 14 – Battle of Mookerheyde: Spanish forces under Sancho de Avila defeat the rebel forces of Louis of Nassau. Louis is killed.
• May 30 – On the death of King Charles IX of France, he is succeeded by his brother King Henry of Poland, who becomes King Henry III. His mother, Catherine of Medici, acts as Regent until Henry arrives from Poland.
• October 3 – The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, is relieved by a Sea Beggar fleet under Louis Boisot.
• Murad III succeeds Selim II as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.