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Everything about 1586 totally explainedYear 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
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
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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
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
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