What is 1574?
{{Year nav|1574}} {{Year in various calendars|1574}} '''1574''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXXIV]]) was a [[common year starting on Friday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == Events == * [[April 14]] – [[Battle of Mookerheyde]]: [[Spain|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 III of France|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 Beggars|Sea Beggar]] fleet under Louis Boisot. * [[Murad III]] succeeds [[Selim II]] as [[Ottoman Emperor|Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. [[Category:1574| ]]