1584 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
• July 5 - Maronite College established in Rome
• July 10 - William I of Orange assassinated
• Dates between October 5 - 14 ignored in the Gregorian Calendar
• 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
• Latin Book of Concord published in Germany
• Ghent falls to the Spanish.

Births

• 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)
• William Baffin, English explorer (died 1622)
• Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (died 1616)
• Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (died 1629)
• Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (died 1647)
• 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.

Deaths

• 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)
• May 18 - Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (born 1536)
• June 19 - François, Duke of Anjou (born 1555)
• 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)
• November 4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (born 1538)
• Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (born 1541)
• Sir James Balfour, Scottish judge and politician
• 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)
• Mikolaj Rudy Radziwill, Polish magnate (born 1512)
• Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (born 1524)
• Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (born 1554)
• Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (born 1515)
• Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (born 1529)

See also Category: 1584 deaths.

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