Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  - 1580s -  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1580 1581 1582 - 1583 - 1584 1585 1586

1583 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1583

August 5: Humphrey Gilbert.

January - June

• January 18 - François, Duke of Anjou, attacks Antwerp.
• March 10 - The Queen Elizabeth's Men troupe of actors is founded.
• May - Battle of Shizugatake: Shibata Katsuie is defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

These date are often disputed by authorities.

July - December

• July - Spanish admiral Santa Cruz defeats the Portuguese, French, and English off Terceira.
• August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England.
• August 19 - Petru Cercel enters Bucharest, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.

Undated

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
• King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating Tounis College (now the University of Edinburgh). For some unknown reason, the charter is dated a year earlier, as 1582.
• The first documented battle of India's independence against a European colonial ruler is fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa, against the Portuguese.
• The world's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken, is founded.

Births

• January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
• March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
• April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
• June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
• June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
• July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636)
• September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
• September 24 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
• November 24 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
• December 17 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (d. 1642)
• December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)
  • Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (d. 1644)
  • John Beaumont, English poet (d. 1627)
  • Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (d. 1649)
  • Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640)
  • Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
• probable
  • Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (d. 1646)
  • Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663)
  • Aurelian Townshend, English poet (d. 1643)

See also Category: 1583 births.

Deaths

• March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
• April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503)
• May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534)
• June 6
  • Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
  • Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
• June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
• June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
• July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
• July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
• September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
• September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526)
• November 11 - Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
• November 24 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
• December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
• December 31 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524)
• date unknown
  • Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (b. 1530)
  • Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (b. 1528)

See also Category: 1583 deaths.