1584

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s
Years:	1581 1582 1583 - 1584 - 1585 1586 1587

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Year 1584 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1584

May 17 - The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.
June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
June 4 - Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony.
July 5 - Maronite College is established in Rome.
July 10 - William I of Orange is assassinated.
December - The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

The first translation of the complete Bible into Slovenian language: Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina (Wittenberg), i.e. The Bible, it is a Complete Holy Scripture of the Old and of the New Testament, Translated into Slovenian by Jurij Dalmatin.
Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.
Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia.
Ghent falls to the Spanish.
Raja Ijau came to power and ruled the once Malay kingdom of Pattani.
The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; concurrent and later Western writers would also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

Ghent falls to the Spanish.

January 29 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (died 1647)
March 29 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general (died 1648)
April 13 - Albert VI of Bavaria (died 1666)
August 13 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (died 1640)
December 16 - John Selden, English jurist (died 1654)
date unknown
- William Baffin, English explorer (died 1622)
- Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (died 1616)
- Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (died 1629)
- Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (died 1647)
- Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai, artist, philosopher (died 1645)
- John Hales, English theologian (died 1656)
- Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (died 1643)
- Mathieu Molé, French statesman (died 1656)
- Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1643)

See also Category: 1584 births.

January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
March 10 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (born 1532)
March 18 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (born 1530)
May 18
- Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (born 1559) (in battle)
- Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (born 1536) (in battle)
June 19 - François, Duke of Anjou (born 1555)
July - Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (born 1554)
July 10 - William I of Orange (assassinated) (born 1533)
July 12 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
July 23 - John Day, English Protestant printer (born 1522)
August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (born 1530)
October - Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (born 1541)
November 4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (born 1538)
date unknown
- Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (born 1524)
- Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (born 1557)
- Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (born 1536)
- Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (born 1512)
- Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (born 1524)
- Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (born 1515)
- Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (born 1529)
probable
- James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician

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