Year 1576 (MDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June January 20 – Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza founds the settlement of León, Guanajuato, in New Spain (modern-day Mexico). January 25 – Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founds the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the south western coast of Africa, which becomes Luanda. 1st May – Hungarian Transylvanian Prince Stephen Báthory is crowned king of Poland. May 5 – The Edict of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after "Monsieur", the Duke of Anjou, brother of the King, Henry III of France, who negotiated it) ends the Fifth War of Religion in France. Protestants are again granted freedom of worship. June 18 – Battle of Haldighati: Mughal forces, led by Man Singh I of Amer, decisively defeat the Mewar Kingdom led by Maharana Pratap. July–December July 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher sights Greenland. July 12 – The Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal. August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him. October – the Siege of Takabaru occurs in Japan, when the forces of Shimazu Takahisa besiege and take the fortress of Takabaru, which belonged to the Itō clan. November 1 – Rudolf II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. November 4 – Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp; after three days the city is nearly destroyed. November 8 – Eighty Years' War – Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose pillaging Spanish mutineers. December The States-General of Blois declares itself against the Edict of Beaulieu, beginning the Sixth War of Religion in France. James Burbage opens first permanent public playhouse, The Theatre. Date unknown The 1576 Cocoliztli epidemic causes millions of deaths in the territory of New Spain, in modern-day Mexico. An early example of autobiography is written in English, by Thomas Whythorne. The Loci Communes of Peter Martyr Vermigli (d. 1562), edited by Robert le Maçon, are published in London. The following schools are founded in England: Dartford Grammar School, by William d'Aeth, Edward Gwyn and William Vaughn. Sutton Valence School, by William Lambe. Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski founds Ostroh Academy, the first university-level school