Explore 112 historical events from 1580–1589.
Victor Amadeus I was the Duke of Savoy and ruler of the Savoyard states from 26 July 1630 until his death in 1637. He was also known as the Lion of Susa.
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (died 1637)
Conquistadors or conquistadores were Spanish and Portuguese colonizers who explored, traded with, and colonized many parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age…
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina
Thomas Middleton was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. He, with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of playwrights at work in the Jacobe…
Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet (died 1627)
Sophie of Saxony was a member of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin. She was a princess of Saxony by birth and by marriage a Duchess of Pomerania-Stettin.
Sophie of Saxony, Duchess of Pomerania (died 1635)
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was the second wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, who held the office of Lord Protector during the first part of the reign of their nep…
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1497)
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine o…
French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous
Sir Henry Sidney was an English soldier, politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Instrumental in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, his attempts to consolidate English power in Ireland …
Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)
Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty…
Rose of Lima, Peruvian mystic and saint (died 1617)
John Ford was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England. His plays deal mainly with the conflict between passion and cons…
John Ford, English poet and playwright (died 1639)
John Foxe was an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Foxe's Book of Martyrs, telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but part…
John Foxe, English historian and author (born 1516)
Robert Arnauld d’Andilly was a French conseiller d’État, specialising in financial questions, in the court of Marie de' Medici. By the elegance of his language, he was among the ma…
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly, French writer (died 1674)
Julius of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1568 until his death. From 1584, he als…
Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1528)
Lady Saigō, also known as Oai, was one of the concubines of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and then ruled as shōgun. She wa…
Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (born 1552)
Gabriel Báthory was Prince of Transylvania from 1608 to 1613. The Ottomans nicknamed him "Deli Kiral". Born to the Roman Catholic branch of the Báthory family, he was closely relat…
Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (died 1613)
Jacques Clément was a French lay brother and the perpetrator of the regicide of King Henry III.
Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (born 1567)
Henry III of France was King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589 and, as Henry of Valois, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575. Before he ca…
Henry III of France (born 1551)
Ole Worm, who often went by the Latinized form of his name Olaus Wormius, was a Danish physician, natural historian and antiquary. He was a professor at the University of Copenhage…
Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (died 1654)
The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine o…
French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry I, Duke of Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, and was the largest engagement of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War. The Armada was commanded by Alo…
The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, and was the largest engagement of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War. The Armada was commanded by Alo…
The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military …
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
Pierre Séguier was a French statesman who was the chancellor of France from 1635.
Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (died 1672)
Johann Andreas Herbst was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz, and like them, assisted in…
Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and theorist (died 1666)
George Wither was a prolific English poet, pamphleteer, satirist, and writer of hymns. Wither's life spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of England, during th…
George Wither, English poet (died 1667)
Giovanni Maria Sabino was an Italian composer, organist and teacher.
Giovanni Maria Sabino, Italian organist, composer, and educator (died 1649)
Count Wolrad IV 'the Pious' of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German: Wolrad IV. 'der Fromme' Graf von Waldeck-Eisenberg, official titles: Graf zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, was since 1588 Count of …
Wolrad IV, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (died 1640)
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military …
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis…
The Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) was an intermittent conflict between Habsburg Spain and the Kingdom of England that was never formally declared. It began with England's military …
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade…
Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Weddi…
Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (born 1528)
Robert Crowley, was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman among Marian exiles at Frankfurt. He seems to have been a Henrician Evangelical in favour of a more refor…
Robert Crowley, English minister and poet (born 1517)
Mimar Sinan also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III. He was re…
Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect and engineer, designed the Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Süleymaniye Mosque (born 1489)
Count Josias I of Waldeck-Eisenberg was a German nobleman who was Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg from 1578 until his death.
Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1578–1588) (born 1554)
Alonso Sánchez Coello was an Iberian portrait painter of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance. He is mainly known for his portrait paintings executed in a style which combines th…
Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (born 1532)
Alfonso Ferrabosco was an Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madriga…
Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Italian-English composer (born 1543)