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'''Gregorian Calendar switch''': Year '1582' involved conversion to the Gregorian calendar. Year ''1582'' began as a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and continued as normal through Thursday, October 4. However, the next day became Friday, October 15 (like a common year starting on Friday), in the Catholic countries: Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Other countries continued using the Julian calendar, switching calendars in later years.

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Events of 1582

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1582

★ January 15 - Russia cedes Livonia and Southern-Estonia to Poland.

★ February 10 - François, Duke of Anjou, arrives in the Netherlands, where he is personally welcomed by William the Silent.

★ February 24 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar.

★ April 16 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.

★ June 21 - Incident at Honnōji in Kyoto, Japan.

★ October 4 of Julian calendar (Thursday) - Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain make the next day Friday, October 15 of the Gregorian Calendar, skipping over 10 days. Other countries follow at various later dates.

★ November 28 - In Stratford-upon-Avon, 18 year-old William Shakespeare and 26 year-old Anne Hathaway pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license (Shakespeare would later become one of the greatest playwrights in history).

★ December 9 of Julian calendar (Sunday) - France makes the next day Monday, December 20 of the Gregorian Calendar.

Undated

★ In Tibet, foundation of Kumbum.

★ In China, Jesuit Matteo Ricci is allowed to enter China.

Births

★ January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and Latin poet (died 1621)

★ May 1 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (died 1643)

★ May 28 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (died 1662)

★ August 28 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (died 1620)

★ October 17 - Johann Gerhard, Lutheran church leader (died 1637)

★ October 19 - Dmitri Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (d. 1591)

★ November 27 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (died 1651)

★ December 23 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (died 1663)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Giovanni Francesco Abela, Maltese writer (died 1655)

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★ Giulio Alenio, Italian Jesuit missionary (died 1649)

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★ Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (died 1652)

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★ John Bainbridge, English astronomer (died 1648)

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★ Richard Corbet, English poet (died 1635)

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★ William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh (died 1643)

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★ Phineas Fletcher, English poet (died 1650)

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★ Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1602)

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★ William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1663)

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★ William Lithgow, Scottish traveller (died 1645)

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★ François Maynard, French poet (died 1646)

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★ Thomas Moulson, Lord Mayor of London (died 1638)

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★ David Teniers the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1649)

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★ Francis Windebank, English politician (died 1646)

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★ Jakub Zadzik, Polish nobleman and diplomat (died 1642)

★ ''probable''

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★ Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Italian Baroque composer (died 1609)

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★ Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (died 1629)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 26 - Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist scholar (born 1499)

★ March 18 - Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (born 1562)

★ April 3 - Takeda Katsuyori, Daimyo of Takeda Clan (born 1546)

★ May 5 - Charlotte of Bourbon, third wife of William I of Orange (born 1547/1548)

★ June 21 - Oda Nobunaga, Daimyo of Oda Clan(born 1534)

★ June 21 - Anayama Nobukimi, Japanese military commander (born 1541)

★ June 23 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military commander (born 1537)

★ July 2 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1528)

★ September 28 - George Buchanan, Scottish humanist scholar (born 1506)

★ October 4 - Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun and poet (born 1515)

★ December 11 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general (born 1507)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty

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★ James Crichton, Scottish scholar (born 1560)

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★ Giocangga, chieftain of the Jurchens

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★ Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (born 1517)

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★ Hans Hendrik van Paesschen, Flemish architect (born 1510)
: ''See also .''