1584

Year '1584' was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1584

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1584

★ May 17 - The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.

★ June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.

★ June 4 - Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony.

★ July 5 - Maronite College is established in Rome.

★ July 10 - William I of Orange is assassinated.

★ December - The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

Undated

★ The first translation of the complete Bible into Slovenian language: ''Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina'' (Wittenberg), i.e. The Bible, it is a Complete Holy Scripture of the Old and of the New Testament, Translated into Slovenian by Jurij Dalmatin.

★ Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.

★ Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia.

★ Ghent falls to the Spanish.

★ Raja Ijau came to power and ruled the once Malay kingdom of Pattani.

Births

★ January 29 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (died 1647)

★ March 29 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general (died 1648)

★ April 13 - Albert VI of Bavaria (died 1666)

★ August 13 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (died 1640)

★ December 16 - John Selden, English jurist (died 1654)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ William Baffin, English explorer (died 1622)

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★ Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (died 1616)

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★ Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (died 1629)

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★ Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (died 1647)

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★ John Hales, English theologian (died 1656)

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★ Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (died 1643)

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★ Mathieu Molé, French statesman (died 1656)

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★ Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1643)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)

★ March 10 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (born 1532)

★ March 18 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (born 1530)

★ May 18

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★ Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (born 1559) (in battle)

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★ Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (born 1536) (in battle)

★ June 19 - François, Duke of Anjou (born 1555)

★ July - Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (born 1554)

★ July 10 - William I of Orange (assassinated) (born 1533)

★ July 12 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)

★ July 23 - John Day, English Protestant printer (born 1522)

★ August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (born 1530)

★ October - Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (born 1541)

★ November 4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (born 1538)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (born 1524)

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★ Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (born 1557)

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★ Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (born 1536)

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★ Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (born 1512)

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★ Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (born 1524)

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★ Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (born 1515)

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★ Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (born 1529)

★ ''probable''

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★ James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician
: ''See also .''