1586
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This article is about the year 1586.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s – 1580s – 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1583 1584 1585 – 1586 – 1587 1588 1589 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1586 MDLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2339 |
| Armenian calendar | 1035 ԹՎ ՌԼԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6336 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -258–-257 |
| Bengali calendar | 993 |
| Berber calendar | 2536 |
| English Regnal year | 28 Eliz. 1 – 29 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2130 |
| Burmese calendar | 948 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7094–7095 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年十一月十二日 (4222/4282-11-12) — to —
丙戌年十一月廿二日(4223/4283-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1302–1303 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1578–1579 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5346–5347 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1642–1643 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1508–1509 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4687–4688 |
| Holocene calendar | 11586 |
| Iranian calendar | 964–965 |
| Islamic calendar | 994–995 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 14 (天正14年) |
| Korean calendar | 3919 |
| Minguo calendar | 326 before ROC 民前326年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2129 |
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Year 1586 (MDLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
- June 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
- July 6 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.
- July 17 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between 'some evangelical Princes and Electors' and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England. The object of this meeting is the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence against the Catholic League, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae'.[1]
- September 20–21 – Execution of the Babington Plotters: The 14 men convicted of the Babington Plot, which intended to murder Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Stuart, were executed over two days in St Giles Field, London. They were all hung, drawn and quartered. The executions of the first seven traitors on 20 September was carried out in a particularly cruel way.
- September 22 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies.
- November 19 – Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist, is imprisoned.
- December 17 – The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.
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- Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
- William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
- Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Angélica.
- William Camden publishes Britannia.
- Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician, demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
- St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake.
- Jacobus Gallus composes his motet O magnum mysterium.
- Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology.
- The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England.
- English explorer Thomas Cavendish begins his circumnavigation of the globe.
- The cities of Voronezh, Samara, and Tyumen in Russia are founded.
[edit] Births
- January 1 – Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
- January 20 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
- April 17 – John Ford, English dramatist and poet (d. 1640)
- April 30 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
- July 1 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
- July 5 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
- July 7 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (d. 1646)
- August 14 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1642)
- August 17 – Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654)
- October 9 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
- December 6 – Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
- date unknown
- John Mason, English explorer (d. 1635)
- Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (d. 1651)
- probable
- Giles Fletcher, English poet (d. 1623)
- David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (d. 1667)
[edit] Deaths
- January 25 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
- March 20 – Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
- March 24 – Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1556)
- April 8 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (b. 1522)
- May 5 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
- May 9 – Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (b. 1510)
- June 28 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
- July 12 – Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (b. 1525)
- September 18 – Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1521)
- September 20
- Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (b. 1561)
- Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
- September 21 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
- October 17 – Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1554)
- December 12 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
[edit] References
- ^ Statement is made on folio 35 of the dedication of the Naometria to the Duke of Wurttemberg, repeated on folio 122. Cf. A.E. Waite, Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross, London, 1924, pp. 639 ff.
