1585
1585 was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar.
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January 12 - The
Netherlands adopts the
Gregorian calendar*February - The
Spanish seize
Brussels.
*Beginning of the
Eighth War of Religion in France (also known as the
War of the Three Henrys)
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August 7 -
Antwerp falls to the
Spanish.
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August 8 -
John Davis enters
Cumberland Sound in quest for the
Northwest Passage.
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August 17 - Capture of
Antwerp by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma.
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Chocolate introduced to Europe commercially
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England enters the
Eighty Years' War*
January 27 -
Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died
1634)
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March 5 -
John George I, Elector of Saxony (d.
1656)
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March 16 -
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died
1618)
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September 9 -
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d.
1642)
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October 9 -
Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died
1672)
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October 28 -
Cornelius Jansen, French bishop of Ypres and religious reformer (died
1638)
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November 1 -
Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d.
1652)
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December 4 -
John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (died
1652)
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December 13 -
William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (died
1649)
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Uriel Acosta, Portuguese Jewish philosopher (died
1640)
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John Ball, English puritan divine (died
1640)
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Zachary Boyd, Scottish religious writer (died
1653)
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Jan Brozek, Polish mathematician (died
1651)
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Louis Cappel, French Protestant churchman and scholar (died
1658)
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Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (died
1638)
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Francesco Fontana, Italian lawyer and astronomer (died
1656)
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Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (died
1615)
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Jacob Le Maire, Dutch mariner (died
1616)
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Krzysztof Radziwill, Polish nobleman (died
1640)
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Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, Irish soldier (died
1655)
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Lucilio Vanini, Italian free-thinker (died
1619)
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Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader (died
1616)
See also :Category:1585 births.*
January 16 -
Edward Fiennes Clinton, English admiral (born
1512)
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February 6 -
Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (born
1518)
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February 13 -
Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (born
1515)
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March 10 -
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (born
1517)
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April 10 -
Pope Gregory XIII (born
1502)
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May 15 -
Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (born
1535)
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June 4 -
Muretus, French humanist (born
1526)
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July 6 -
Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (born
1552)
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August 5 -
Yermak Timofeyevich, Cossack leader and explorer of Siberia
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November 23 -
Thomas Tallis, English composer
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November 28 -
Hernando Franco, Spanish composer (born
1532)
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December 4 -
John Willock, Scottish reformer
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December 22 -
Vittoria Accoramboni, Italian noblewoman (born
1557)
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Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford (born
1527)
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Taqi al-Din, Turkish scientist (born
1526)
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Thomas Goldwell, English ecclesiastic
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Stanislaw Lubomirski, Polish nobleman
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Henry Percy, 2nd/8th Earl of Northumberland (born
1532)
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Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (born
1524)
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Ambrose Barlow, monk
See also :Category:1585 deaths.
