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Year '1585' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1585

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1585

January - June

★ January 12 - The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar

★ February - The Spanish seize Brussels.

★ April 24 - Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII as the 227th pope.

July - December

★ July 7 - The Treaty of Nemours forces King Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League.

★ August 8 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.

★ August 17 - Capture of Antwerp by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.

★ August 20 - The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support for the Dutch revolt.

Undated

★ Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys).

★ Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.

★ England enters the Eighty Years' War.

★ Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The settlers face many problems, and soon abandon the colony.

Births

★ January 27 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died 1634)

★ March 5 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)

★ March 16 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died 1618)

★ March 22 – Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1640)

★ June 11 - Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died 1615)

★ September 9 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

★ October – John Ball, English puritan divine (died 1640)

★ October 9 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)

★ October 15 - Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (died 1658)

★ October 28 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (died 1638)

★ November 1 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)

★ December 4 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (died 1652)

★ December 13 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died 1649)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (died 1653)

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★ Ambrose Barlow Catholic priest and martyr.(died 1641)

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★ Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (died 1655)

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★ Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (died 1619)

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★ Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (died 1616)

★ ''probable''

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★ Uriel da Costa, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (died 1640)

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★ Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (died 1638)

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★ Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (died 1656)

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★ Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (died 1616)
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Deaths

★ January 16 - Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (born 1512)

★ February 6 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (born 1518)

★ February 13 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (born 1515)

★ March 10 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517)

★ April 3 - Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic

★ April 10 - Pope Gregory XIII (born 1502)

★ May 15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (born 1535)

★ June 4 - Muretus, French humanist (born 1526)

★ June 21 – Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)

★ July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born 1552)

★ July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born 1527)

★ August 5 - Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia

★ November 23 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (born c1510)

★ November 28 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (born 1532)

★ December - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)

★ December 4 - John Willock, Scottish reformer (bornc 1515)

★ December 22 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (born 1557)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Taqi al-Din, Turkish scientist (born 1526)

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★ Stanisław Lubomirski (XVI-1585), Polish nobleman
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