North America is set up in Mexico City. Teseo Ambrogio's Introductio in Chaldaicam lingua, Syriaca atq Armenica, & dece alias linguas, published in Pavia, introduces several Middle Eastern languages to western Europe for the first time. Births January 28 – Nicolò Donato, Doge of Venice (d. 1618) February 13 – Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine by marriage (1576-1582) (d. 1582) February 23 Henry XI of Legnica, thrice Duke of Legnica (d. 1588) Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire as a wife of Emperor Akbar (d. 1613) February 27 – Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch printer (d. 1597) March 5 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604) March 18 – Maria of Nassau, Countess of Nassau (d. 1599) April 5 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603) April 6 – Amalia of Neuenahr, German noble (d. 1602) April 7 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss artist (d. 1584) Strange Jørgenssøn, Norwegian businessman (d. 1610) April 30 – Archduchess Barbara of Austria, Austrian archduchess (d. 1572) May 22 – Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1621) May 29 – Thomas Pounde, English Jesuit lay brother (d. 1613) June 6 – Catherine Vasa, Regent of East Frisia (1599-1610) (d. 1610) June 13 – Jost Amman, Swiss printmaker (d. 1591) June 23 – William Darrell of Littlecote, English politician (d. 1589) July 4 – Louis VI, Elector Palatine (d. 1583) September 18 – Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, Italian-French dignitary and diplomat (d. 1595) October 1 – Peter Vok, Czech noble (d. 1611) November 1 – Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596) December 5 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) December 20 – Paulus Melissus, German composer (d. 1602) December 31 – John Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1568) date unknown José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (d. 1590) Hasegawa Tōhaku, Japanese painter (d. 1610) Laurence Tomson, English Calvinist (d. 1608) Humphrey Gilbert, English adventurer, explorer, member of Parliament and soldier (d. 1583) Deaths January 24 – Anneke Esaiasdochter, Dutch Anabaptist writer (b. 1509) February – Narapati of Prome, king of Prome in Burma. February 6 – John III, Duke of Cleves (b. 1491) February 13 – Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474) March 5 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487) March 12 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477) March 19 – Lord Edmund Howard, English nobleman (b.