1580

Year 1580 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1580

• March 1 - Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays. They are published later the same year.
• June 11 - Juan de Garay founds Buenos Aires.
• June 25 - The Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents, is published.
• July 12 - The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible in a Slavic language, is published.
• August 25 - In the Battle of Alcântara, Spanish armies, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, defending the right of King Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne, defeat the Portuguese armies of Portuguese pretender António, Prior of Crato.
• September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.

Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba

Undated

• 1580-1764: First session of Jewish Vaad Council of Four Lands in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss taxations and other issues important to Jewish communities.
• 1580-1640: Iberian Union - King Philip II of Spain becomes King of Portugal under the name Philip I, following the death without heirs of King Henry of Portugal, in a personal union of the crowns, thus maintaining Portuguese independence (in Europe and throughout the Portuguese Empire). The Portuguese House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty) rule would last until 1640.
• Yermak entered Siberia with a band of 1636 men. Russia begins the conquest of Siberia.
• Jesuit missionaries arrive at the court of Akbar, Ruler of the Moghul Empire. ^[1]
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  June 25: Concord.

  
  

  Births

  1580 in other calendars

  Gregorian calendar	1580 MDLXXX
  Ab urbe condita	2333
  Armenian calendar	1029 ԹՎ ՌԻԹ
  Bahá'í calendar	-264 – -263
  Berber calendar	2530
  Buddhist calendar	2124
  Burmese calendar	942
  Chinese calendar	4216/4276-12-15 (己卯年十二月十五日) — to — 4217/4277-11-25 (庚辰年十一月廿五日)
  Coptic calendar	1296 – 1297
  Ethiopian calendar	1572 – 1573
  Hebrew calendar	5340 – 5341
  Hindu calendars
  - Vikram Samvat	1635 – 1636
  - Shaka Samvat	1502 – 1503
  - Kali Yuga	4681 – 4682
  Holocene calendar	11580
  Iranian calendar	958 – 959
  Islamic calendar	987 – 988
  Japanese calendar	Tenshō 8 (天正8年)
  - Imperial Year	Kōki 2240 (皇紀2240年)
  Korean calendar	3913
  Thai solar calendar	2123
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  • February - John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomat (died 1653)
  • April 15 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer (died 1623)
  • April 18 - (baptism) Thomas Middleton, English playwright (died 1627)
  • April 24 - Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (died 1660)
  • June 6 - Godefroy Wendelin, Belgian astronomer (died 1667)
  • June 9 - Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655)
  • August 24 - John Taylor, English poet (died 1654)
  • September 15 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (died 1659)
  • September 17 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (died 1645)
  • December 1 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (died 1637)
  • December 4 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (died 1626)
  • date unknown
    • Philip Cluwer, German geographer and historian (died 1623)
    • Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer (died 1621)
    • John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler (died 1631)
    • Robert Killigrew, knight of Arwenack in Falmouth (died 1633)
    • Willebrord Snellius, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)
    • Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Bohemian lawyer and writer (died 1644)
    • Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (died 1637)
    • Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish nobleman (died 1627)
  • probable
    • Edward Fairfax, English translator (died 1635)
    • Frans Hals, Dutch painter (died 1666)
    • Zacharias Janssen, Dutch spectacle-maker (died 1638)
    • Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (died 1661)
    • Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, French Huguenot leader (died 1642)

  See also Category: 1580 births.

  Deaths

  • January 18 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (born 1517)
  • January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (born 1512)
  • February 2 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
  • February 28 - Krystyna Radziwiłł, Polish noblewoman (born 1560)
  • June 10 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c1524)
  • July 9 - Zofia Odrowąż, Polish noblewoman (born 1540)
  • August 1 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (born 1524)
  • August 19 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (born 1508)
  • August 20 - Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
  • August 30 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (born 1528)
  • November 3 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512)
  • November 30 - Richard Farrant, English composer (born 1530)
  • December 1 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
  • date unknown
    • Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)
    • Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Italian anatomist (born 1545)
    • Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c1532)
    • Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (born 1493)
    • Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and writer on chess (born 1530)
    • Inés de Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (born 1507)
    • Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (born 1524)
  • probable
    • John Heywood, English dramatist (born 1497)

  See also Category: 1580 deaths.

  
  

  References

  1. ^ Roberts, J: "History of the World.". Penguin, 1994.

  
  

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