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).
Events of 1585
January - June
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January 12 - The
Netherlands adopts the
Gregorian calendar
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February - The
Spanish seize
Brussels.
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April 24 -
Pope Sixtus V succeeds
Pope Gregory XIII as the 227th
pope.
July - December
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July 7 - The
Treaty of Nemours forces King
Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the
Catholic League.
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August 8 -
John Davis enters
Cumberland Sound in quest for the
Northwest Passage.
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August 17 - Capture of
Antwerp by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.
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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).
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Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.
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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
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January 27 -
Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died
1634)
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March 5 -
John George I, Elector of Saxony (d.
1656)
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March 16 -
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died
1618)
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March 22 –
Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died
1640)
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June 11 -
Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died
1615)
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September 9 -
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d.
1642)
★ October –
John Ball, English puritan divine (died
1640)
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October 9 -
Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died
1672)
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October 15 -
Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (died
1658)
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October 28 -
Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (died
1638)
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November 1 -
Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d.
1652)
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December 4 -
John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (died
1652)
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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
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January 16 -
Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (born
1512)
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February 6 -
Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (born
1518)
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February 13 -
Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (born
1515)
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March 10 -
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born
1517)
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April 3 -
Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic
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April 10 -
Pope Gregory XIII (born
1502)
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May 15 -
Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (born
1535)
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June 4 -
Muretus, French humanist (born
1526)
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June 21 –
Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born
1532)
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July 6 -
Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born
1552)
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July 28 –
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born
1527)
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August 5 -
Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia
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November 23 -
Thomas Tallis, English composer (born c
1510)
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November 28 -
Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (born
1532)
★ December -
Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born
1524)
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December 4 -
John Willock, Scottish reformer (bornc
1515)
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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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