1584

Year 1584 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).

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.

Undated

* 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

* 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)

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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

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