1581

Year 1581 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1581

• January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
• April 4 - After circumnavigating the world Sir Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I.
• July 26 - The Northern Netherlands (Union of Utrecht) proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. They abjure loyalty to Philip II of Spain as their sovereign and become a Republic.

Undated

• Robert Browne and his Brownist companions were obliged to leave England and went to Middelburg, in the Netherlands. See Congregational church
• Russia begins the conquest of Siberia.
• A mercenary army of Sweden under Pontus de la Gardie capture Narva from Russia.
• Finland becomes a grand duchy.
• The Chancellor of Ming Dynasty China, Chief Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng, imposes the Single Whip Reform, by which taxes are assessed on properties recorded in the land census and paid in silver as the accepted medium of exchange.

Births

• January 4 - James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar (died 1656)
• February 17 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
• March 16 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian (died 1647)
• October 9 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (died 1638)
• October 21 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (died 1641)
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  • Gasparo Aselli, Italian physician (died 1626)
  • Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit writer of devotional literature
  • Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (died 1621)
  • Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, French monk who introduced Jansenism into France (died 1643)
  • Charles Malapert, Belgian Jesuit writer (died 1630)
  • Łukasz Opaliński (1581-1654), Polish nobleman (died 1654)
  • Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist (died 1613)
  • Johannes Rudbeckius, bishop at Västerås (died 1646)
  • Choghtu Khong Tayiji, ruler of the Khalkha Mongols (died 1637)
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  • Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (died 1639)
  • Sisto Badalocchio, Italian painter and engraver (died 1647)

Deaths

• April 25 - Okabe Motonobu, Japanese warrior
• May 31 - Jan Kostka (1529-1581), Polish noble (b. 1529)
• June 2 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (born 1525)
• July 11 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval officer (b. 1500)
• July 22 - Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
• August 21 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
• September 1 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (born 1534)
• September 30 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
• October 9 - Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin America, patron saint of Colombia (b. 1526)
• October 23 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
• November 7 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. c1505)
• December 1
  • Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
  • Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (martyred) (born 1550)
• date unknown
  • Christopher Báthory, prince of Transylvania (b. 1530)
  • Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (b. c1492)
  • Guillaume Postel, French linguist (b. 1510)
  • Nicholas Sanders, English Catholic propagandist (b. 1530)af:1581

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