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1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1585
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Events

January 12 - The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar

February - The Spanish seize Brussels.

Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys)

April 24 - Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII as the 225th pope.

August 7 - Antwerp falls to the Spanish.

August 8 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.

August 17 - Capture of Antwerp by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.

Chocolate introduced to Europe commercially

England enters the Eighty Years' War

England Sir Walter Raleigh sent an expedition to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The settlers faced many problems, however, and soon abandoned the colony

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Births

January 27 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died 1634)

March 5 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)

March 16 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died 1618)

September 9 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

October 9 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)

October 28 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (died 1638)

November 1 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)

December 4 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (died 1652)

December 13 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died 1649)

Uriel Acosta, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (died 1640)

John Ball, English puritan divine (died 1640)

Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (died 1653)

Ambrose Barlow Catholic priest and martyr.(died 1641)

Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (died 1658)

Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (died 1638)

Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (died 1656)

Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died 1615)

Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (died 1616)

Krzysztof Radziwill, Polish nobleman (died 1640)

Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (died 1655)

Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (died 1619)

Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (died 1616)

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Deaths

January 16 - Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (born 1512)

February 6 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (born 1518)

February 13 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (born 1515)

March 10 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517)

April 10 - Pope Gregory XIII (born 1502)

May 15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (born 1535)

June 4 - Muretus, French humanist (born 1526)

July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born 1552)

August 5 - Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia

November 23 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (born c1510)

November 28 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (born 1532)

December 4 - John Willock, Scottish reformer (bornc 1515)

December 22 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (born 1557)

Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born 1527)

Taqi al-Din, Turkish scientist (born 1526)

Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic

Stanisław Lubomirski (XVI-1585), Polish nobleman

Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)

Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)

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