1583
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s
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| Years: | 1580 1581 1582 - 1583 - 1584 1585 1586 |
| 1583 in topic: |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
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Year 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1583
[edit] January - June
- January 18 - François, Duke of Anjou, attacks Antwerp.
- March 10 - Queen Elizabeth's Men troupe of actors founded
- May - At the Battle of Shizugatake, Shibata Katsuie is defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
[edit] July - December
- July - Spanish admiral Santa Cruz defeats the Portuguese, French, and English off Terceira.
- August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in what is now the city of St John's, Newfoundland, claims the island of Newfoundland on behalf of England.
- August 19 - Petru Cercel enters Bucharest, and becomes Prince of Wallachia.
[edit] Undated
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
- King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Tounis College - what is now the University of Edinburgh. For some unknown reason, the charter was dated a year earlier, as 1582.
- First documented battle of India's independence against an European colonial ruler was fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa against the Portuguese.
- World's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken was founded.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1583 MDLXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2336 |
| Armenian calendar | 1032 ԹՎ ՌԼԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -261 – -260 |
| Berber calendar | 2533 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2127 |
| Burmese calendar | 945 |
| Chinese calendar | 4219/4279-12-8 (壬午年十二月初八日) — to — 4220/4280-11-18(癸未年十一月十八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1299 – 1300 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1575 – 1576 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5343 – 5344 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1638 – 1639 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1505 – 1506 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4684 – 4685 |
| Holocene calendar | 11583 |
| Iranian calendar | 961 – 962 |
| Islamic calendar | 990 – 991 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 11 (天正11年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2243 (皇紀2243年) |
| Julian calendar | 1628 |
| Korean calendar | 3916 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2126 |
- January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (died 1643)
- March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (died 1648)
- April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (died 1645)
- June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (died 1654)
- June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
- July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (died 1636)
- September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (died 1643)
- September 24 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
- November 24 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
- December 17 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (killed in battle) (d. 1642)
- December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
- date unknown
- Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)
- Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (died 1644)
- John Beaumont, English poet (died 1627)
- Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)
- Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (died 1649)
- Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)
- Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
- probable
- Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (died 1646)
- Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (died 1663)
- Aurelian Townshend, English poet (died 1643)
- See also Category: 1583 births.
[edit] Deaths
- March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
- April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (born 1503)
- May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (born 1534)
- June 6
- Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (born 1556)
- Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (born 1556)
- June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
- June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (born 1558)
- July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
- July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)
- September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c1537)
- September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (born 1526)
- November 11 - Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
- November 24 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
- December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
- December 31 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (born 1524)
- date unknown
- Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (born 1530)
- Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (born 1528)
- See also Category: 1583 deaths.af:1583
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