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1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

    1586
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        Births
        Deaths

Events

June 16 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.

September 22 - The battle of Zutphen occurs.

November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned.

The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.

William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.

Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Angélica.

William Camden publishes Britannia.

Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.

St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake.

Jacobus Gallus composes his motet O magnum mysterium.

Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology.

The first HMS ''Vanguard'' is launched in England.

Thomas Cavendish, English explorer, begins his circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

January 20 - Johann Schein, German composer (died 1630)

April 17 - John Ford, English dramatist and poet (died 1640)

April 30 - Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (died 1617)

July 1 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)

July 5 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (d. 1647)

July 7 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (died 1646)

August 14 - William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (died 1642)

October 9 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (died 1632)

December 6 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1670)

Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (died 1654)

Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (died 1641)

Giles Fletcher, English poet (died 1623)

Gerard de Malynes, English merchant (died 1641)

John Mason, English explorer (died 1635)

Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (died 1651)

David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (died 1667)

See also .

Deaths

January 25 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (born 1515)

March 20 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (born 1496)

April 8 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (born 1522)

May 5 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)

June 28 - Primoz Trubar, Slovenian protestant reformer (born 1508)

September 20 - Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (born 1561)

September 20 - Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (born 1558)

September 21 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (born 1517)

October 17 - Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (killed in battle) (born 1554)

Philips van der Aa, Dutch statesman

Stephen Bathory, King of Poland (born 1533)

Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic saint and martyr (born 1556)

Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (born 1525)

Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer (born 1510)

Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (born 1510)

Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1521)

See also .

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