1580
Year '1580' was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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| Events of 1580 |
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Events of 1580
★ March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.
★ June 11 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
★ June 25 - Publication of the Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents.
★ July 12 - Publication of the Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible in a Slavic language.
★ August 25 - In the Battle of Alcantara, Spain, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, defeats Portugal.
★ September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe.
Undated
★ 1580-1764 First session of Jewish ''Waad'' (Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local ''kahals'' met to discuss taxations and other issues important to Jewish communities.
★ Portugal loses independence to Spain following the death without heirs of king Henry of Portugal. The Habsburg rule would last until 1640.
★ Yermak entered Siberia with a band of 1636 men. Russia begins the conquest of Siberia.
★ Jesuit missionaries arrive at the court of Akbar, Ruler of the Moghul Empire. [1]
Births
★ February - John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomat (died 1653)
★ April 15 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer (died 1623)
★ April 18 - (baptism) Thomas Middleton, English playwright. (died 1627)
★ April 24 - Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (died 1660)
★ June 6 - Godefroy Wendelin, Belgian astronomer (died 1667)
★ June 9 - Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655)
★ August 24 - John Taylor, English poet (died 1654)
★ September 15 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (died 1659)
★ September 17 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (died 1645)
★ December 1 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)
★ December 4 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (died 1626)
★ ''date unknown''
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★ Philip Cluwer, German geographer and historian (died 1623)
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★ Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer (died 1621)
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★ John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler (died 1631)
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★ Robert Killigrew, knight of Arwenack in Falmouth (died 1633)
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★ Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)
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★ Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Bohemian lawyer and writer (died 1644)
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★ Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (died 1637)
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★ Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish nobleman (died 1627)
★ ''probable''
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★ Edward Fairfax, English translator (died 1635)
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★ Frans Hals, Dutch painter (died 1666)
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★ Zacharias Janssen, Dutch spectacle-maker (died 1638)
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★ Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (died 1661)
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★ Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, French Huguenot leader (died 1642)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
★ January 18 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (born 1517)
★ January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (born 1512)
★ February 2 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
★ February 28 - Krystyna Radziwiłł, Polish noblewoman (born 1560)
★ April 1 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (born 1510)
★ June 10 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c1524)
★ July 9 - Zofia Odrowąż, Polish noblewoman (born 1540)
★ August 1 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (born 1524)
★ August 19 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508)
★ August 20 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
★ August 30 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (born 1528)
★ November 3 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512)
★ November 30 - Richard Farrant, English composer (born 1530)
★ December 1 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
★ ''date unknown''
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★ Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)
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★ Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Italian anatomist (born 1545)
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★ Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c1532)
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★ Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (born 1493)
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★ Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and writer on chess (born 1530)
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★ Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (born 1507)
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★ Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (born 1524)
★ ''probable''
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★ John Heywood, English dramatist (born 1497)
: ''See also .''
References
1. Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.
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