1586

Year 1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1586

* June 16 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
* July 6 - The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.
* September 22 - Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies.
* November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist, is imprisoned.
* December 17 - The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.

Undated

* Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
* William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
* Luis Barahona de Soto publishes "Primera parte de la Angélica".
* William Camden publishes "Britannia".
* Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician, demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
* St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake.
* Jacobus Gallus composes his motet "O magnum mysterium".
* Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of "Roman martyrology".
* The first HMS "Vanguard" is launched in England.
* English explorer Thomas Cavendish begins his circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

* January 20 - Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
* April 17 - John Ford, English dramatist and poet (d. 1640)
* April 30 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
* July 1 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
* July 5 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
* July 7 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (d. 1646)
* August 14 - William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1642)
* October 9 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
* December 6 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
*"date unknown"
**Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654)
**Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
**Giles Fletcher, English poet (d. 1623)
**Gerard de Malynes, English merchant (d. 1641)
**John Mason, English explorer (d. 1635)
**Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (d. 1651)
**David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (d. 1667)

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Deaths

* January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
* March 20 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
* March 24 - Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1556)
* April 8 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (b. 1522)
* May 5 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
* May 9 - Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (b. 1510)
* June 28 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
* July 12 - Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (b. 1525)
* September 18 – Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1521)
* September 20
**Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (b. 1561)
**Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
* September 21 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
* October 17 - Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1554)
*December 12 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
*"date unknown"
**Philips van der Aa, Dutch statesman
**Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer (b. 1510)

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