1585

This article is about the year 1585.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  – 1580s –  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1582 1583 1584 – 1585 – 1586 1587 1588

1585 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1585 MDLXXXV
Ab urbe condita	2338
Armenian calendar	1034 ԹՎ ՌԼԴ
Assyrian calendar	6335
Bengali calendar	992
Berber calendar	2535
English Regnal year	27 Eliz. 1 – 28 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2129
Burmese calendar	947
Byzantine calendar	7093–7094
Chinese calendar	甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4281 or 4221     — to — 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4282 or 4222
Coptic calendar	1301–1302
Discordian calendar	2751
Ethiopian calendar	1577–1578
Hebrew calendar	5345–5346
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1641–1642
- Shaka Samvat	1507–1508
- Kali Yuga	4686–4687
Holocene calendar	11585
Igbo calendar	585–586
Iranian calendar	963–964
Islamic calendar	992–994
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 13 (天正１３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3918
Minguo calendar	327 before ROC 民前327年
Thai solar calendar	2127–2128

1585 (MDLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1585th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 585th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1580s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1585 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

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.
• May 19 – Spain seizes English ships in Spanish ports, precipitating the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).

July–December

• July 7 – The Treaty of Nemours forces King Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League, triggering the Eighth War of Religion (also known as the War of the Three Henrys) to begin in France.
• August 8 – English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island in his quest for the Northwest Passage.
• August 14 – Queen Elizabeth I of England agrees to establish a protectorate over the Netherlands.
• August 17
  • Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city. As a result, over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. Furthermore, upon hearing of the capture of Antwerp, a relief fleet sent to raise the siege instead blockades the Schelde river, preventing any and all ships from reaching Antwerp for two centuries. This effectively destroys Antwerp's position as an important trade city and de facto capital of the Dutch provinces. Its position is taken over by various northern cities, most prominently Amsterdam.
  • A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. This group will depart the following June.
• August 20 – The Treaty of Nonsuch is signed, committing England to support the Dutch Revolt, thus entering the Eighty Years' War.

Date unknown

• Chocolate is introduced to Europe commercially.
• The Kingdom of Luba is founded.

Births

• January 27 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
• February 2 – Hamnet Shakespeare, and Judith Shakespeare, children of William Shakespeare
• 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
  • Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (d. 1653)
  • Ambrose Barlow, Catholic priest and martyr (d. 1641)
  • Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (d. 1655)
  • Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (d. 1619)
  • Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (d. 1616)
• probable
  • Uriel da Costa, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (d. 1640)
  • Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (d. 1638)
  • Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (d. 1656)
  • Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (d. 1616)

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
• October 29 – Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier (b.1527)
• 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
  • Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Turkish scientist (b. 1526)
  • Stanisław Lubomirski (XVI-1585), Polish nobleman