Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  – 1580s –  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1581 1582 1583 – 1584 – 1585 1586 1587

1584 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 1584 (MDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1584 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1584

• May 17 – The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.
• June 1 – With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
• June 4 – Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony.
• July 5 – The Maronite College is established in Rome.
• July 10 – William I of Orange is assassinated.
• December – The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

[edit] Undated

• Emmanuel College, Cambridge was founded by Sir Walter Mildmay.
• The first translation of the complete Bible into the Slovenian language: Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina (Wittenberg), is published by Jurij Dalmatin.
• Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.
• Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia.
• Ghent falls to the Spanish.
• Raja Ijau comes to power and rules the once Malay kingdom of Pattani.
• The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.
• An expedition led by Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe explores the Outer Banks of what is now North Carolina for a suitable location for England's first North American colony.

[edit] Births

1584 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1584 MDLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2337
Armenian calendar	1033 ԹՎ ՌԼԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-260 – -259
Berber calendar	2534
Buddhist calendar	2128
Burmese calendar	946
Byzantine calendar	7092 – 7093
Chinese calendar	癸未年十一月十九日 (4220/4280-11-19) — to — 甲申年十一月三十日 (4221/4281-11-30)
Coptic calendar	1300 – 1301
Ethiopian calendar	1576 – 1577
Hebrew calendar	5344 – 5345
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1639 – 1640
- Shaka Samvat	1506 – 1507
- Kali Yuga	4685 – 4686
Holocene calendar	11584
Iranian calendar	962 – 963
Islamic calendar	991 – 992
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 12 (天正12年)
Korean calendar	3917
Thai solar calendar	2127
v • d • e

• January 29 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
• March 29 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general (d. 1648)
• April 13 – Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
• August 13 – Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
• December 16 – John Selden, English jurist (d. 1654)
• date unknown
  • William Baffin, English explorer (d. 1622)
  • Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (d. 1616)
  • Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (d. 1629)
  • Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (d. 1647)
  • Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai, artist, philosopher (d. 1645)
  • John Hales, English theologian (d. 1656)
  • Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (d. 1643)
  • Mathieu Molé, French statesman (d. 1656)
  • Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1643)

See also Category: 1584 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
• March 10 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
• March 18 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
• May 18
  • Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (b. 1559) (in battle)
  • Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (in battle) (b. 1536)
• June 19 – François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• July – Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1554)
• July 10 – William I of Orange (assassinated) (b. 1533)
• July 12 – Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
• July 13 – Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
• July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522)
• August 22 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (born 1530)
• October – Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1541)
• November 4 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)
• date unknown
  • Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524)
  • Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1536)
  • Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1512)
  • Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (b. 1524)
  • Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1515)
  • Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (b. 1529)
• probable
  • James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician

See also Category: 1584 deaths.