1584
| 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 |
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).
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Events of 1584
June 4: Roanoke.
- 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.
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.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1584 MDLXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2337 |
| Armenian calendar | 1033 ԹՎ ՌԼԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -260 – -259 |
| Bengali calendar | 991 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1640 – 1641 |
| - 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 |
- 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.
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
- 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.