Timeline of 1571
(Genki 2; 元亀二年)
- 1571/5 Oda Nobunaga lays siege to the Nagashima Ikkô stronghold in Ise province.
- Shimazu Takahisa dies.
- Nagasaki is established as a foreign trading post by the Portuguese.
- 1571/8 Tokugawa Ieyasu takes Nagashino (Mikawa province) from Suganuma Sadayoshi.
- Môri Motonari dies and is succeded by his grandson, Môri Terumoto
- Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin face each other for the last time at the Tone River (Kozuke province).
- 1571/10/21 Hôjô Ujiyasu dies and is succeded by Ujimasa.