1576
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| Gregorian calendar | 1576 MDLXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2329 |
| Armenian calendar | 1025 ԹՎ ՌԻԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6326 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1497–1498 |
| Bengali calendar | 983 |
| Berber calendar | 2526 |
| English Regnal year | 18 Eliz. 1 – 19 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2120 |
| Burmese calendar | 938 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7084–7085 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4272 or 4212 — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4273 or 4213 |
| Coptic calendar | 1292–1293 |
| Discordian calendar | 2742 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1568–1569 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5336–5337 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1632–1633 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1497–1498 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4676–4677 |
| Holocene calendar | 11576 |
| Igbo calendar | 576–577 |
| Iranian calendar | 954–955 |
| Islamic calendar | 983–984 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 4 (天正４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1495–1496 |
| Julian calendar | 1576 MDLXXVI |
| Korean calendar | 3909 |
| Minguo calendar | 336 before ROC 民前336年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 108 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2118–2119 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1702 or 1321 or 549 — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1703 or 1322 or 550 |
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1576 (MDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1576th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 576th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1570s decade. As of the start of 1576, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Events
- August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.