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Events

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File:Roanoke map 1584.JPG: Roanoke Island is discovered by English settlers.]]

= January–March =

= April–June =

= July–September =

  • July 3 – The Siege of Antwerp by the Spanish Army beginsRonald P. de Graaf, Oorlog, mijn arme schapen (Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2004) p.128 and lasts for 13 months until Antwerp's surrender on August 17, 1585.{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Antwerp|title=Battle of Antwerp {{!}} Summary|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-11-21|language=en}}
  • July 5 – The Maronite College is established in Rome.{{cite book |last1= Abouzayd|first1=Shafiq |editor1-last=King |editor1-first=Daniel |title=The Syriac world |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-138-89901-8|page=739 |chapter=The Maronite Church|language=en}}
  • July 10 – Willem van Oranje, the leader of the Dutch Republic as Stadtholder of Holland, is assassinated in Delft. Balthasar Gérard, who bought two wheel-lock pistols and then made an appointment with at the Prinsenhof, shoots William in the chest at close range and fatally wounds him, making William the first head of state to be assassinated with a handgun."The pistol as assassination weapon: A case of technological lag", by A. D. Harvey, Terrorism and Political Violence (June 1991)
  • August 6 – Russian conquest of Siberia: Russian General Yermak Timofeyevich, who had been dispatched by Ivan the Terrible in 1582 to conquer the Khanate of Sibir, is killed along with all but one member of his invading force in an ambush commanded by Kuchum Khan, the ruler of Siberia.Yuri Semyenov, The Conquest of Siberia (Routledge & Sons, 1944) p.84A. J. Haywood, Siberia: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2010) p.18
  • August 7 – In Lima in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Italian printer Antonio Ricardo receives official permission to set up the first printing press in South America, and prints the first publication there, Pragmatica, a four-page outline of how the new Gregorian calendar (adopted 1582) works.Nicole Howard, The Book: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005) p.86
  • August 11 – (Tenshō 12, 16th day of the 7th month) The Tenshō embassy, Japan's first diplomatic mission to Europe, arrives in Portugal with four teenagers— Julião Nakaura, Mancio Itō, Martinho Hara and Miguel Chijiwa— who had become converts to Christianity."Spiritual Saga: When Four Boys Went to Meet the Pope, 400 Years Ago", by Michael Cooper, The Japan Times, February 21, 1982
  • September 17 – In what is now Belgium, the Calvinist Republic of Ghent comes to an end after seven years when its capital, Ghent, falls following a siege of 13 months. Jan van Hembyze, leader of the republic since October 1583, surrenders the city to Alexander Farnese, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands.{{cite book|url=http://chestofbooks.com/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-V7/Ghent.html|chapter=Ghent|title=The American Cyclopaedia|first1=George|last1=Ripley|author-link1=George Ripley (transcendentalist)|first2=Charles A.|last2=Dana|author-link2=Charles Anderson Dana|volume=7|year=1873|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|location=New York|access-date=2011-12-04}}

= October–December =

  • October 26 – At the Battle of Slunj in the Kingdom of Croatia, an Ottoman invasion led by Ferhad Pasha Sokolović is turned back by Croatian forces, aided by troops of the Habsburg monarchy.Ive Mažuran, Povijest Hrvatske od 15. stoljeća do 18. stoljeća [History of Croatia from the 15th to the 18th century] (in Croatian) (Golden marketing, 1998) p. 138.
  • November 23 – In the wake of the Throckmorton plot to overthrow her government, Queen Elizabeth convenes a new session of the English House of Commons since 1581. John Puckering is appointed by her as the Speaker of the House of Commons, which has 460 members. The parliament passes the Safety of the Queen Act and the Jesuits Act 1584,[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1584 "5th Parliament of Elizabeth I, 27 Eliz. I"], History of Parliament online
  • November 24 – Albert Fontenay sends an enciphered letter to Mary, Queen of Scots that will become the chief evidence against her in her trial for treason during the Babington Plot. After becoming a witness for the English government in return for immunity from prosecution, Jérôme Pasquier will decipher the letter in 1586, leading to Mary's conviction for an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and to overthrow the English government.[https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep08grea/page/68/mode/ "The Enterprise of England"], in Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1605 (General Register Office of Scotland, 1914) pp.74-75
  • December 31 – The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.Frederic J. Baumgartner, Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League (Librairie Droz, 1975)

= Date unknown =

  • Ratu Hijau becomes queen regnant of the Malay Patani Kingdom.{{cite journal|last= Amirell|first= Stefan |title=The Blessings and Perils of Female Rule: New Perspectives on the Reigning Queens of Patani, c. 1584–1718 |journal=Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |volume=42 |number= 2 |year=2011|pages= 303–23 |doi= 10.1017/S0022463411000063 |s2cid= 143695148 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1950979 }}
  • 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.
  • This year, according to Italian heretic Jacopo Brocardo, is regarded as an apocalyptic inauguration of a major new cycle.

Births

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Deaths

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