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1580

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s

Years: 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 - 1580 - 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585

Events

Michel de Montaigne publishes first Essay.
September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe

Births

April 18 - baptise of Thomas Middleton - English Elizabethan playwright
Willebrord van Roijen Snell , Dutch mathematician.
Frans Hals - Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.

Deaths

Albrecht Giese IV
Andrea Palladio
August 30 - Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy
November 3 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro

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