Ottoman conquest of Cyprus
Venice loses Cyprus despite the victory at Lepanto
In the summer of 1570 the Ottomans landed on Venetian Cyprus and took Nicosia, while Famagusta held out for almost a year, until August 1571. Two months later the Christian fleet crushed the Turks at Lepanto, but the island was not regained: in the peace of 1573 Venice recognised Cyprus as Ottoman.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1565 Great Siege of Malta — 5 years earlier
- 1568–1648 Dutch Revolt — 2 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 1 year later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 2 years later
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 23 years earlier
- 1558–1583 Livonian War — 12 years earlier
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 1 year earlier
- 1572 Battle of Molodi — 2 years later
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 12 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 21 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 14 years earlier
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 14 years earlier
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 22 years later
Americas
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 25 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 40)
- Elizabeth I (aged 37)
- Akbar the Great (aged 28)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 27)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 23)
- William Shakespeare (aged 6)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 6)
- Selim II (aged 46)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 43)
- Yermak Timofeyevich (aged 38)