1578 (MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century16th century17th century
Decades: 1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years: 1575 1576 157715781579 1580 1581
1578 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1578
MDLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2331
Armenian calendar1027
ԹՎ ՌԻԷ
Assyrian calendar6328
Balinese saka calendar1499–1500
Bengali calendar985
Berber calendar2528
English Regnal year20 Eliz. 1 – 21 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2122
Burmese calendar940
Byzantine calendar7086–7087
Chinese calendar丁丑(Fire Ox)
4274 or 4214
    — to —
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4275 or 4215
Coptic calendar1294–1295
Discordian calendar2744
Ethiopian calendar1570–1571
Hebrew calendar5338–5339
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1634–1635
 - Shaka Samvat1499–1500
 - Kali Yuga4678–4679
Holocene calendar11578
Igbo calendar578–579
Iranian calendar956–957
Islamic calendar985–986
Japanese calendarTenshō 6
(天正6年)
Javanese calendar1497–1498
Julian calendar1578
MDLXXVIII
Korean calendar3911
Minguo calendar334 before ROC
民前334年
Nanakshahi calendar110
Thai solar calendar2120–2121
Tibetan calendar阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1704 or 1323 or 551
    — to —
阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1705 or 1324 or 552

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