Explore 134 historical events from 1580–1589.
Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians o…
Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1666)
Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Weddi…
Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (born 1528)
Robert Crowley, was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more refor…
Robert Crowley, English minister and poet (born 1517)
Mimar Sinan also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III. He was re…
Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (born 1489)
Count Josias I of Waldeck-Eisenberg was a German nobleman who was Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg from 1578 until his death.
Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578–1588) (born 1554)
Alonso Sánchez Coello was an Iberian portrait painter of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance. He is mainly known for his portrait paintings executed in a style which combines th…
Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (born 1532)
Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madriga…
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian-English composer (born 1543)
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many yea…
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk (born 1532)
The Roanoke Colony was the site of two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The first colony was established at Roanoke …
Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the…
Sophie of Saxony was a member of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin. She was a princess of Saxony by birth and by marriage a Duchess of Pomerania-Stettin.
Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (died 1635)
Victor Amadeus I was the Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 26 July 1630 until his death in 1637. He was also known as the Lion of Susa.
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died 1637)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick was an English naval officer, politician, and peer who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Puritan, he was …
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)
William Arnold was one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he and his sons were among the wealthiest people in the colony. He was…
William Arnold, English-American settler (died 1675)
Virginia Dare was the first English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony.
Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, first child born to English parents in…
Francesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname La Cecchina, given to her by the F…
Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1640)
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nep…
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1497)
John Foxe was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Foxe's Book of Martyrs, telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but part…
John Foxe, English historian and author (born 1516)
Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the…
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America
The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English throne. It led to Mary's exe…
A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered.
John Ford was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England. His plays deal mainly with the conflict between passion and cons…
John Ford, English poet and playwright (died 1639)
Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty…
Rose of Lima, Peruvian mystic and saint (died 1617)
Paul Siefert was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.
Paul Siefert, German composer and organist (died 1666)
Claudio Saracini was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the most famous and distinguished composers of monody.
Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (died 1630)
Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was…
Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1647)