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Everything about 1585 totally explained
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).
Events of 1585
January - June
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 his quest for the Northwest Passage.
August 17 - Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.
August 20 - The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support the Dutch Revolt.
Undated
The Eighth War of Religion (also known as the War of the Three Henrys) begins in France.
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.
Births
January 27 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
March 5 - John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
March 16 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618)
March 22 – Krzysztof Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1640)
June 11 - Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (d. 1615)
September 9 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)
October – John Ball, English puritan divine (d. 1640)
October 9 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
October 15 - Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (d. 1658)
October 28 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (d. 1638)
November 1 - Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
December 4 - John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1652)
December 13 - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
date unknown
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Deaths
January 16 - Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (b. 1512)
February 6 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
February 13 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
March 10 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
April 3 - Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic
April 10 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
May 15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
June 4 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
June 21 – Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1532)
July 6 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
July 28 – Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (b. 1527)
August 5 - Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia
November 23 - Thomas Tallis, English composer (b. c. 1510)
November 28 - Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (b. 1532)
December - Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (b. 1524)
December 4 - John Willock, Scottish reformer (b. c. 1515)
December 22 - Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (b. 1557)
date unknown
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