Events

• 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 - Publication of the Book of Concord, a collection of Lutheran confessional documents.
• July 12 - Publication of the Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible in a Slavic language.
• September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
• 1580-1764 First session of Jewish Waad (Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss taxations and other issues important to Jewish communities.
• Portugal loses independence to Spain following the death without heirs of king Henry of Portugal. The Habsburg rule would last until 1640.
• Yermak entered Siberia with a band of 1636 men. Russia begins the conquest of Siberia.

Births

• April 15 - George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer
• 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)
• George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and coloniser (died 1632)
• John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, English diplomatist (died 1653)
• George Calvert, English secretary of state (died 1632)
• Philip Cluwer, German geographer and historian (died 1623)
• Edward Fairfax, English translator (died 1635)
• Frans Hals, Dutch painter (died 1666)
• Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer (died 1621)
• John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler (died 1631)
• Zacharias Janssen, Dutch spectacle-maker (died 1638)
• Robert Killigrew, knight of Arwenack in Falmouth (died 1633)
• Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (died 1661)
• Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (died 1626)
• Willebrord van Roijen Snell, Dutch mathematician (died 1626)
• Raphael Sobiehrd-Mnishovsky, Bohemian lawyer and writer (died 1644)
• Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise, French Huguenot leader (died 1642)
• Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and instrument inventor (died 1637)
• Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish nobleman (died 1627)

See also Category: 1580 births.

Deaths

• January 31 - King Henry of Portugal (born 1512)
• February 2 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
• April 1 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (born 1510)
• June 10 - Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
• August 1 - Albrecht Giese IV, 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)
• Cristobal Acosta, Portuguese doctor and natural historian (born 1515)
• Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1511)
• John Heywood, English dramatist (born 1497)
• Giovanni Filippo Ingrassias, Italian anatomist (born 1545)
• Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler
• Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese nobleman
• Zofia Odrowaz, Polish noblewoman (born 1540)
• Krystyna Radziwill, Polish noblewoman (born 1560)
• Antonio Scandello, Italian composer
• Matsudaira Shigeyoshi, Japanese general (born 1493)
• Ruy López de Segura, Spanish priest and writer on chess (born 1530)
• Inés Suárez, Spanish conquistadora (born 1507)
• Thomas Tusser, English poet and farmer (born 1524)

See also Category: 1580 deaths.

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