Explore 134 historical events from 1580–1589.
Johannes Valentinus Andreae, also known as Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian and writer.
Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (died 1654)
Sir Henry Sidney was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Instrumental in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, his attempts to consolidate English power in Ireland …
Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)
Anthony Babington was an English gentleman convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I of England and conspiring with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, for which he…
Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (born 1561)
Primož Trubar or Primus Truber was a Slovene Protestant Reformer of the Lutheran tradition, mostly known as the author of the first Slovene language printed book, the founder and t…
Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (born 1508)
Chidiock Tichborne, erroneously referred to as Charles, was an English conspirator and poet.
Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (born 1558)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military …
Anglo–Spanish War: A convoy of English ships from the Levant Company repelled a fleet of Spanish and Maltese galleys…
John Davis was an explorer, navigator and privateer. He led several voyages in search of the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to …
John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.
The Treaty of Nemours were articles that were agreed upon in writing and signed in Nemours on 7 July 1585 between the Queen Mother, Catherine de' Medici, acting for the King, and r…
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi , otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō and Hashiba Hideyoshi , was a Japanese samurai and daimyō of the late Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods, regarded as …
Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).
The Treaty of Nonsuch was signed on 10 August 1585 by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch rebels fighting against Spanish rule. It was the first international treaty signed by wha…
The Treaty of Nonsuch signed by Elizabeth I of England and the Dutch Rebels.
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who…
Sir Walter Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation …
A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create…
Zofia Radziwiłł, also Zofia of Słuck is a Polish-Lithuanian Orthodox Christian saint. She was the last descendant of the Olelkowicz–Słucki family – princes of Slutsk and Kopyl – wh…
Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (died 1612)
Evert Karlsson Horn af Kanckas was a Swedish field marshal and governor of Narva.
Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died 1615)
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religiou…
Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician (died 1642)
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg was a Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, then Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, then Prince-Bishop of Paderborn.
Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (born 1550)
Niwa Nagahide , also known as Gorōzaemon (五郎左衛門), his other legal alias was Hashiba Echizen no Kami (羽柴越前守), was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku through Azuchi-Momoyama periods o…
Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (born 1535)
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG, was an English magistrate, diplomat and courtier during the reigns of James I and Charles I. He made his name as a Grand Tourist and art col…
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (died 1646)
Marc Antoine Muret, better known by his Latinized name Marcus Antonius Muretus, was a French humanist who was among the revivers of an Attic, or anti-Ciceronian, prose style, and i…
Muretus, French philosopher and author (born 1526)
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, 2nd Baron Percy was an English nobleman and conspirator.
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)
Thomas Aufield, also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.
Thomas Aufield, English priest and martyr (born 1552)
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford of Chenies in Buckinghamshire and of Bedford House in Exeter, Devon, was an English nobleman, soldier, and politician. He was a godfather to th…
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born 1527)
Santiago de Vera was a native of Alcalá de Henares, Spain and the sixth Spanish governor of the Philippines, from May 16, 1584, until May 1590.
Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines
Philip Amadas (1550–1618) was a naval commander and explorer in Elizabethan England. Little is known from his early life, but he grew up within a wealthy merchant family in southwe…
Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island.