Explore 175 historical events from 1580–1589.
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)
Henri II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé was a French prince who was the head of the House of Bourbon-Condé, the senior-most cadet branch of the House of Bourbon. From the age of 2 to …
Henri, Prince of Condé (died 1646)
Marin Mersenne, OM was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. He is perhaps best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers, those written…
Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian (died 1648)
Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians o…
Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1666)
Luke Wadding, was an Irish Franciscan friar, theologian, and historian.
Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (died 1657)
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)
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many yea…
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk (born 1532)
Tilemann Heshusius was a Gnesio-Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer.
Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (born 1527)
Sir Amias Paulet of Hinton St. George, Somerset, was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for a period of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Amias Paulet, Governor of Jersey (born 1532)
Edward James was an English Catholic priest and martyr.
Edward James, English priest and martyr (born 1557)
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)
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)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick was an English naval officer, politician, and peer who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Puritan, he was …
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)
The Roanoke Colony was the site of two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The first colony was established at Roanoke …
Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the…
William Arnold was one of the founding settlers of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he and his sons were among the wealthiest people in the colony. He was…
William Arnold, English-American settler (died 1675)
Virginia Dare was the first English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony.
Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, first child born to English parents in…
Francesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname La Cecchina, given to her by the F…
Francesca Caccini, Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1640)
Nathan Field was an English dramatist and actor.
Nathan Field, English dramatist and actor (died 1620)
Lady Mary Wroth was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers …
Lady Mary Wroth, English poet (died 1651)