1585
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| Years: | 1582 1583 1584 - 1585 - 1586 1587 1588 |
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Year 1585 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1585
[edit] January - June
- January 12 - The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar
- February - The Spanish seize Brussels.
- April 24 - Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII as the 227th pope.
[edit] July - December
- July 7 - The Treaty of Nemours forces King Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League.
- 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.
- August 20 - The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support for the Dutch revolt.
[edit] Undated
- Beginning of the Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the War of the Three Henrys).
- Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.
- England enters the Eighty Years' War.
- Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The settlers face many problems, and soon abandon the colony.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1585 MDLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2338 |
| Armenian calendar | 1034 ԹՎ ՌԼԴ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -259 – -258 |
| Berber calendar | 2535 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2129 |
| Burmese calendar | 947 |
| Chinese calendar | 4221/4281-12-1 (甲申年十二月初一日) — to — 4222/4282-11-11(乙酉年十一月十一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1301 – 1302 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1577 – 1578 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5345 – 5346 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1640 – 1641 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1507 – 1508 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4686 – 4687 |
| Holocene calendar | 11585 |
| Iranian calendar | 963 – 964 |
| Islamic calendar | 992 – 994 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 13 (天正13年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2245 (皇紀2245年) |
| Julian calendar | 1630 |
| Korean calendar | 3918 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2128 |
- 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)
- March 22 – Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (died 1640)
- June 11 - Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died 1615)
- September 9 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
- October – John Ball, English puritan divine (died 1640)
- October 9 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)
- October 15 - Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (died 1658)
- 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)
- date unknown
- Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (died 1653)
- Ambrose Barlow Catholic priest and martyr.(died 1641)
- Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (died 1655)
- Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (died 1619)
- Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (died 1616)
- probable
- Uriel da Costa, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (died 1640)
- Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (died 1638)
- Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (died 1656)
- Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (died 1616)
- See also Category:1585 births.
[edit] 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 3 - Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic
- April 10 - Pope Gregory XIII (born 1502)
- May 15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (born 1535)
- June 4 - Muretus, French humanist (born 1526)
- June 21 – Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (born 1532)
- July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born 1552)
- July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born 1527)
- 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 - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born 1524)
- December 4 - John Willock, Scottish reformer (bornc 1515)
- December 22 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (born 1557)
- date unknown
- Taqi al-Din, Turkish scientist (born 1526)
- Stanisław Lubomirski (XVI-1585), Polish nobleman
- See also Category:1585 deaths.af:1585
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