1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• June 16 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
• September 22 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.
• November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned.
• The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
• William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
• Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Angélica.
• William Camden publishes Britannia.
• Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
• St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake.
• Jacobus Gallus composes his motet O magnum mysterium.
• Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology.
• The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England.
• Thomas Cavendish, English explorer, begins his circumnavigation of the globe.
• Shakespeare writes his 16th play.

Births

• January 20 - Johann Schein, German composer (died 1630)
• April 17 - John Ford, English dramatist and poet (died 1640)
• April 30 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (died 1617)
• July 1 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
• July 5 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)
• July 7 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (died 1646)
• August 14 - William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (died 1642)
• October 9 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (died 1632)
• December 6 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1670)
• Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (died 1654)
• Johannes Valentinus Andreae, German theologian and Rosicrucian (died 1654)
• Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (died 1641)
• Giles Fletcher, English poet (died 1623)
• Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut (died 1647)
• Gerard de Malynes, English merchant (died 1641)
• John Mason, English explorer (died 1635)
• Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (died 1651)
• David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (died 1667)
• Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey (died 1646)

See also Category:1586 births.

Deaths

• January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (born 1515)
• March 20 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (born 1496)
• April 8 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (born 1522)
• May 5 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)
• June 28 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (born 1508)
• September 20 - Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (born 1561)
• September 20 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (born 1558)
• September 21 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (born 1517)
• October 17 - Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (killed in battle) (born 1554)
• Philips van der Aa, Dutch statesman
• Stephen Bathory, King of Poland (born 1533)
• Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic saint and martyr (born 1556)
• Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (born 1525)
• Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer (born 1510)
• Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (born 1510)
• Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1521)

See also Category:1586 deaths.

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