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 |
1586 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1586 MDLXXXVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2339 |
Armenian calendar | 1035 ԹՎ ՌԼԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6336 |
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 (Wood Rooster) 4282 or 4222 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4283 or 4223 |
Coptic calendar | 1302–1303 |
Discordian calendar | 2752 |
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 |
Igbo calendar | 586–587 |
Iranian calendar | 964–965 |
Islamic calendar | 994–995 |
Japanese calendar | Tenshō 14 (天正14年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3919 |
Minguo calendar | 326 before ROC 民前326年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2128–2129 |
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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.
Events[edit]
- 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.
- 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 Barrowe, English Separatist Puritan, is imprisoned.
- December 17 – The reign of Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yōzei ascends to the throne of Japan.
Date unknown[edit]
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
- William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
- Simon Stevin, a Flemish 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.
- The first English ship 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.
Births[edit]
- January 1 – Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
- January 20 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
- February 8 – Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (d. 1651)
- 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 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
- December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
- date unknown – John Mason, English explorer (d. 1635)
- probable
- Giles Fletcher, English poet (d. 1623)
- David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (d. 1667)
Deaths[edit]
- 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, Carniolan 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)