1586

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

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

Years: 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585 - 1586 - 1587 1588 1589 1590 1591

• 19th of November Henry Barrow[?], English Puritan and Separatist[?] is imprisoned
• End of the reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
• Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan
• 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.
• Roanoke, the first English colony in the New World, is founded
• St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Frances Drake[?]
• Jacabus Gallus[?] composes his motet O magnum mysterium
• Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology
• The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England

Births

• Thomas Cavendish, English explorer who circumnavigated[?] the globe.
• theologian Johann Valentin Andrea[?]
• Axel Oxenstierna's half-brother, Gabriel Bengtsson[?]
• Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey
• Cornelis van Poelenburgh[?], a Dutch painter of Italian landscapes
• Jacob Revius[?], poet who also worked also on the new bible translation known as the Statenbijbel[?]
• Primož Trubar[?] Slovenian Protestant reformer and author

Deaths

• Sir Philip Sidney, in the battle of Zutphen[?]
• June 28 - Primoz Trubar, the author of the first printed book in Slovenian
• Lucas Cranach the Younger, a painter
• Sir Anthony Babington[?], executed for leading the Babington plot.
• Stephen Báthory King of Poland[?].
• Joan Naylor, mother of the Richard Boyle, First Earl of Cork[?].
• Composer Andrea Gabrieli
• Ottavio Farnese[?] Duke of Parma and Piacenza[?]
• Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as a writer of sonnets.
• Joachim Ernest[?] who united the whole of Anhalt under his rule
• Peter Symonds[?] whose will creates a fund to create Peter Symonds College
• Theoleptus II[?], Orthodox Patriach of Constantinople[?]