1583

This article is about the year 1583.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  – 1580s –  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1580 1581 1582 – 1583 – 1584 1585 1586

1583 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1583 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1583 MDLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2336
Armenian calendar	1032 ԹՎ ՌԼԲ
Assyrian calendar	6333
Bahá'í calendar	-261–-260
Bengali calendar	990
Berber calendar	2533
English Regnal year	25 Eliz. 1 – 26 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2127
Burmese calendar	945
Byzantine calendar	7091–7092
Chinese calendar	壬午年十二月初八日 (4219/4279-12-8) — to — 癸未年十一月十八日 (4220/4280-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1299–1300
Ethiopian calendar	1575–1576
Hebrew calendar	5343–5344
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1639–1640
- Shaka Samvat	1505–1506
- Kali Yuga	4684–4685
Holocene calendar	11583
Iranian calendar	961–962
Islamic calendar	990–991
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 11 (天正11年)
Korean calendar	3916
Minguo calendar	329 before ROC 民前329年
Thai solar calendar	2126

August 5: Humphrey Gilbert.

1583 (MDLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 18 – François, Duke of Anjou, attacks Antwerp.
• March 10 – The Queen Elizabeth's Men troupe of actors is founded.
• May – Battle of Shizugatake: Shibata Katsuie is defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

July–December

• July – Spanish admiral Santa Cruz defeats the Portuguese, French, and English off Terceira.
• August 5 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England, marking the beginning of the British Empire.
• August 19 – Petru Cercel enters Bucharest, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.

Date unknown

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
• King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating Tounis College (now the University of Edinburgh). For some unknown reason, the charter is dated a year earlier^{[citation needed]}, as 1582.
• The first documented battle of India's independence against a European colonial ruler is fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa, against the Portuguese.
• The world's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken, is founded.
• The Bunch Of Grapes pub is built on Narrow Street, London. Referred to by Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend as The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters, it still stands today renamed The Grapes

Births

• January 8 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
• March 3 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
• April 10 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
• June 16 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
• June 20 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
• July 2 – Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636)
• September – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
• September 24 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
• November 24 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
• December 17 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (d. 1642)
• December 25 – Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)
  • Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (d. 1644)
  • John Beaumont, English poet (d. 1627)
  • Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (d. 1649)
  • Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640)
  • Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
• probable
  • Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (d. 1646)
  • Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663)
  • Aurelian Townshend, English poet (d. 1643)

Deaths

• March 18 – King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
• April – Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503)
• May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534)
• June 6
  • Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
  • Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
• June 9 – Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
• June – Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
• July 1 – Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
• July 6 – Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
• September 9 – Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
• September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526)
• November 11 – Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
• November 24 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
• December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
• December 31 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524)
• date unknown
  • Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (b. 1530)
  • Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (b. 1528)