1586
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This article is about the year 1586.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Arts and science |
| Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial governors - State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1586 MDLXXXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2339 |
| Armenian calendar | 1035 ԹՎ ՌԼԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -258 – -257 |
| 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 | 乙酉年十一月十二日 (4222/4282-11-12) — to —
丙戌年十一月廿二日(4223/4283-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 1302 – 1303 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1578 – 1579 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5346 – 5347 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1642 – 1643 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1508 – 1509 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4687 – 4688 |
| Holocene calendar | 11586 |
| Iranian calendar | 964 – 965 |
| Islamic calendar | 994 – 995 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 14 (天正14年) |
| Korean calendar | 3919 |
| Thai solar calendar | 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
January–June
- June 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
July–December
- July 6 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.
- September 22 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies.
- November 19 – Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist, is imprisoned.
- December 17 – The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.
Date unknown
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
- William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
- Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Angélica.
- William Camden publishes Britannia.
- Simon Stevin, a Dutch 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.
- Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology.
- The first HMS 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
- January 1 – Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
- January 20 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
- 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 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
- December 6 – Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
- date unknown
- John Mason, English explorer (d. 1635)
- Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (d. 1651)
- probable
- Giles Fletcher, English poet (d. 1623)
- David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (d. 1667)
Deaths
- 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, Slovenian 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)
