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Events in May 1576 3
1576Coronation of Stephen Báthory as King of PolandTransylvanian prince crowned Polish-Lithuanian monarchStephen Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, was crowned King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania in Kraków after marrying the elder sister of the previous king. He went on to reform the Commonwealth's military and later fought a successful war against Muscovy. His election ended a period of succession uncertainty following the Jagiellon line.
1576Edict of BeaulieuPeace of Monsieur ends the Fifth War of Religion in FranceKing Henry III granted the Huguenots freedom of worship outside Paris and other concessions to end the Fifth War of Religion. The settlement provoked a strong Catholic backlash across France. It was far more generous to Protestants than earlier edicts and proved short-lived.
1576Tycho Brahe granted Hven for Uraniborg observatoryDanish king endows astronomer with an islandKing Frederick II of Denmark granted the astronomer Tycho Brahe the island of Hven along with funds to build an observatory. Brahe laid the cornerstone of Uraniborg there later that year, creating what became Europe's most advanced astronomical research center. His decades of precise observations later underpinned Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion.