1583
| 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 |
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).
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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
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1639 – 1640 |
| - 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 |
- 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
- 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
- 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.