1583
1583 was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar.
* 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.
*
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 found.Faysal
*
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)
*
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)
*
Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (died
1644)
*
John Beaumont, English poet (died
1627)
*
Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (died
1652)
* September -
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (died
1643)
*
Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (died
1646)
*
Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (died
1636)
*
Stanislaw Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (died
1649)
*
Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died
1640)
*
Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (died
1663)
*
George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, English soldier (died
1663)
*
John Pym, English politician (died
1643)
*
Aurelian Townsend, English poet (died
1643)
*
Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d.
1657)
See also :Category: 1583 births.*
January 12 -
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born
1508)
*
January 18 -
Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (b.
1622)
*
February 18 -
Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author (born
1503)
*
March 18 - King
Magnus of Livonia (b.
1540)
*
June 6 -
Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (born
1556)
*
June 6 -
Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (born
1556)
*
June 9 -
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born
1525)
*
July 1 -
Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
*
July 6 -
Edmund Grindal,
Archbishop of Canterbury (born
1519)
*
November 11 -
Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
*
November 24 -
René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b.
1506)
*
December 31 -
Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (born
1524)
*
Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish army commander (born
1537)
*
Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of
John II of Sweden (born
1526)
*
Lucas David, Prussian historian (born
1503)
*
Ivan Fedorov, Russian printer
*
Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer
*
Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander
*
Andrey Kurbsky, Russian writer (born
1528)
*
Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai
*
Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (born
1534)
See also :Category: 1583 deaths.
