1583

Year '1583' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1583

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1583

January - June

★ January 18 - François, Duke of Anjou, attacks Antwerp.

★ May - At the Battle of Shizugatake, Shibata Katsuie is defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

July - December

★ July - Spanish admiral Santa Cruz defeats the Portuguese, French, and English off Terceira.

★ August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England.

★ August 19 - Petru Cercel enters Bucharest, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.

Undated

★ Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.

★ King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Tounis College - what is now the University of Edinburgh. For some unknown reason, the charter was dated a year earlier, as 1582.

★ First documented battle of India's independence against an European colonial ruler was fought by the ''Desai''s of Cuncolim in Goa against the Portuguese.

★ World's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken was founded.

Births

★ January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (died 1643)

★ March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (died 1648)

★ April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (died 1645)

★ June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (died 1654)

★ June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)

★ July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (died 1636)

★ September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (died 1643)

★ September 24 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)

★ November 24 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)

★ December 17 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (killed in battle) (d. 1642)

★ December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)

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★ Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (died 1644)

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★ John Beaumont, English poet (died 1627)

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★ Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)

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★ Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (died 1649)

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★ Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)

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★ Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)

★ ''probable''

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★ Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (died 1646)

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★ Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (died 1663)

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★ Aurelian Townshend, English poet (died 1643)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 18 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (b. 1522)

★ February 18 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author (born 1503)

★ March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)

★ April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (born 1503)

★ May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (born 1534)

★ June 6

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★ Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (born 1556)

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★ Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (born 1556)

★ June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)

★ June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (born 1558)

★ July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)

★ July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)

★ September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c1537)

★ September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (born 1526)

★ November 11 - Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel

★ November 24 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)

★ December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer

★ December 31 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (born 1524)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (born 1530)

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★ Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (born 1528)
: ''See also .''