|
Birth
1585 Birth, Marriage, Death in the UK 1585- 1585
- 1585
- 1585
1585
| Millennium: |
2nd millennium |
| Centuries: |
15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: |
1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: |
1582 1583 1584 - 1585 - 1586 1587 1588 |
| 1585 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works
v • d • e
|
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).
Contents
- 1 Events of 1585
- 1.1 January - June
- 1.2 July - December
- 1.3 Undated
- 2 Births
- 3 Deaths
|
- 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 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 his quest for the Northwest Passage.
- August 17 - Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.
- August 20 - The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support the Dutch Revolt.
- The Eighth War of Religion (also known as the War of the Three Henrys) begins in France.
- 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.
1585 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1585
MDLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita |
2338 |
| Armenian calendar |
1034
ԹՎ ՌԼԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar |
-259 – -258 |
| Berber calendar |
2535 |
| Buddhist calendar |
2129 |
| Burmese calendar |
947 |
| Byzantine calendar |
7093 – 7094 |
| Chinese calendar |
甲申年十二月初一日
(4221/4281-12-1)
— to —
乙酉年十一月十一日
(4222/4282-11-11) |
| Coptic calendar |
1301 – 1302 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1577 – 1578 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5345 – 5346 |
| Hindu calendars |
|
| - Vikram Samvat |
1640 – 1641 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1507 – 1508 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4686 – 4687 |
| Holocene calendar |
11585 |
| Iranian calendar |
963 – 964 |
| Islamic calendar |
992 – 994 |
| Japanese calendar |
Tenshō 13
(天正13年) |
| Korean calendar |
3918 |
| Thai solar calendar |
2128 |
|
v • d • e
|
- January 27 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
- March 5 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
- March 16 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
- March 22 – Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1640)
- June 11 - Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (d. 1615)
- August 11 - Hamnet Shakespeare, Son of William Shakespeare
- September 9 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- October – John Ball, English puritan divine (d. 1640)
- October 9 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
- October 15 - Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (d. 1658)
- October 28 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (d. 1638)
- November 1 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
- December 4 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1652)
- December 13 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
- date unknown
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (d. 1653)
- Ambrose Barlow, Catholic priest and martyr (d. 1641)
- Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (d. 1655)
- Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (d. 1619)
- Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (d. 1616)
- probable
- Uriel da Costa, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (d. 1640)
- Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (d. 1638)
- Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (d. 1656)
- Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (d. 1616)
- See also Category:1585 births.
- January 16 - Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (b. 1512)
- February 6 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
- February 13 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
- March 10 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
- April 3 - Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic
- April 10 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
- May 15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
- June 4 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
- June 21 – Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1532)
- July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
- July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (b. 1527)
- August 5 - Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia
- November 23 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c. 1510)
- November 28 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
- December - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (b. 1524)
- December 4 - John Willock, Scottish reformer (b. c. 1515)
- December 22 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (b. 1557)
- date unknown
- Taqi al-Din, Turkish scientist (b. 1526)
- Stanisław Lubomirski (XVI-1585), Polish nobleman
- See also Category:1585 deaths.
|
