1586

This article is about the year 1586.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  – 1580s –  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1583 1584 1585 – 1586 – 1587 1588 1589

1586 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1586 MDLXXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2339
Armenian calendar	1035 ԹՎ ՌԼԵ
Assyrian calendar	6336
Bengali calendar	993
Berber calendar	2536
English Regnal year	28 Eliz. 1 – 29 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2130
Burmese calendar	948
Byzantine calendar	7094–7095
Chinese calendar	乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4282 or 4222     — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4283 or 4223
Coptic calendar	1302–1303
Discordian calendar	2752
Ethiopian calendar	1578–1579
Hebrew calendar	5346–5347
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1642–1643
- Shaka Samvat	1508–1509
- Kali Yuga	4687–4688
Holocene calendar	11586
Igbo calendar	586–587
Iranian calendar	964–965
Islamic calendar	994–995
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 14 (天正１４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3919
Minguo calendar	326 before ROC 民前326年
Thai solar calendar	2128–2129

1586 (MDLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Julian calendar, the 1586th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 586th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1580s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1586 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

• June 16 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir.
• July 6 – The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Queen Elizabeth I of England and King James VI of Scotland.
• September 20–21 – Execution of the Babington Plotters: The 14 men convicted of the Babington Plot, which intended to murder Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Stuart, were executed over two days in St Giles Field, London. They were all hung, drawn and quartered. The executions of the first seven traitors on 20 September was carried out in a particularly cruel way.
• September 22 – Battle of Zutphen: Spanish troops defeat the Dutch rebels and their English allies.
• November 19 – Henry Barrowe, English Separatist Puritan, is imprisoned.
• December 17 – The reign of Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan ends and Emperor Go-Yōzei ascends to the throne of Japan.

Date unknown

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan.
• William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor.
• Simon Stevin, a Flemish 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.
• The first English ship Vanguard is launched in England.
• English explorer Thomas Cavendish begins his circumnavigation of the globe.
• The cities of Voronezh, Samara, and Tyumen in Russia are founded.

Births

• January 1 – Pau Claris i Casademunt, Catalan ecclesiastic (d. 1641)
• January 20 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
• February 8 – Jacob Praetorius, German composer and organist (d. 1651)
• April 17 – John Ford, English dramatist and poet (d. 1640)
• April 30 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 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 (d. 1646)
• August 14 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1642)
• August 17 – Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654)
• October 9 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
• December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
• date unknown – John Mason, English explorer (d. 1635)
• probable
  • Giles Fletcher, English poet (d. 1623)
  • David HaLevi Segal, Polish rabbi (d. 1667)

Deaths

• January 25 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
• March 20 – Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
• March 24 – Margaret Clitherow, English Catholic saint and martyr (b. 1556)
• April 8 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (b. 1522)
• May 5 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
• May 9 – Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter (b. 1510)
• June 28 – Primož Trubar, Carniolan Protestant reformer (b. 1508)
• July 12 – Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley (b. 1525)
• September 18 – Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1521)
• September 20
  • Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (b. 1561)
  • Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (b. 1558)
• September 21 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (b. 1517)
• October 17 – Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1554)
• December 12 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)