Explore 175 historical events from 1580–1589.
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.
William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange and in the Dutch National anthem as Willem van Nassau, was the leader of the…
William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and politician.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland (died 1640)
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, was an English courtier, nobleman, and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I. He married Sus…
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (died 1649)
William the Silent or William the Taciturn, more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange and in the Dutch National anthem as Willem van Nassau, was the leader of the…
William I, Dutch nobleman (born 1533)
Steven Borough was an English navigator and an early Arctic explorer. He was master of the first English ship to reach the White Sea in 1553 and open trade with Russia on behalf of…
Steven Borough, English navigator and explorer (born 1525)
John Day was an English printer. He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, serm…
John Day, English printer (born 1522)
Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who wrote in Latin and Polish and established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polish literary language. He has been …
Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1530)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonia…
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland…
Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna was a Swedish statesman and Count of Södermöre. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1609 and served as Lord High Chancellor of Sweden fro…
Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (died 1654)
Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire, and a Marshal from 1620 onward.
Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (died 1652)
Alban Roe was an English Benedictine who was killed for ministering as a Catholic priest in 17th-century England. He is venerated as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
Alban Roe, English Benedictine martyr (died 1642)
Daišan was an influential Manchu prince and statesman of the Qing dynasty.
Daišan, Chinese prince and statesman (died 1648)
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader, statesman and a major figure of the Thirty Years' War, fighting on …
Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian general (died 1634)
Nakagawa Kiyohide was a daimyō in Azuchi–Momoyama period. His childhood name was Nakagawa Toranosuke. His common name was Nakagawa Sebe.
Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese daimyo (born 1556)
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, was Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
Shibata Katsuie or Gonroku (権六) was a Japanese samurai and military commander during the Sengoku period. He was retainer of Oda Nobuhide. He served Oda Nobunaga as one of his tru…
Shibata Katsuie, Japanese samurai (born 1522)
Edmund Grindal was successively Bishop of London, Archbishop of York, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Elizabeth I. Though born far from the centres of political an…
Edmund Grindal, English archbishop (born 1519)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonia…
Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer and politician (born 1539)
Catherine Jagiellon was a princess of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Queen of Sweden from 1569 as the wife of King John III. Catherine had significant influence over state …
Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John III of Sweden (born 1526)
Conquistadors or conquistadores were Spanish and Portuguese colonizers who explored, traded with, and colonized many parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age…
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina
The Sengoku period was the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident …
Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general
The Battle of Yamazaki was fought in 1582 in Yamazaki, Japan, located in current-day Kyoto Prefecture. This battle is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Mt. Tennō.
Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar currently used in most parts of the world. It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Greg…
The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.