Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1583 (MDLXXXIII) 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).

Contents 1 Events of 1583 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1583

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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^{[citation needed]}, 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.

[edit] Births

1583 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1583 MDLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2336
Armenian calendar	1032 ԹՎ ՌԼԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-261 – -260
Bengali calendar	990
Berber calendar	2533
Buddhist calendar	2127
Burmese calendar	945
Byzantine calendar	7091 – 7092
Chinese calendar	壬午年十二月初八日 (4219/4279-12-8) — to — 癸未年十一月十八日 (4220/4280-11-18)
Coptic calendar	1299 – 1300
Ethiopian calendar	1575 – 1576
Hebrew calendar	5343 – 5344
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1638 – 1639
- Shaka Samvat	1505 – 1506
- Kali Yuga	4684 – 4685
Holocene calendar	11583
Iranian calendar	961 – 962
Islamic calendar	990 – 991
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 11 (天正11年)
Korean calendar	3916
Thai solar calendar	2126
v • d • e

• 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.

[edit] 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.