Decades: 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s
Years: 1572 1573 1574 1575 1576 - 1577 - 1578 1579 1580 1581 1582
Events The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built. Births June 12 - Habbakkuk Guldin later known as Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematician June 28 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter April 12 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway Deaths June 11 - king John III of Portugal August 27 - Titian, artist\n