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Years: 1578 1579 1580 - 1581 - 1582 1583 1584

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1581 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

[edit] Events

• January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
• April 4 - After circumnavigating the world Sir Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I.
• July 26 - The Northern Netherlands proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. They abjure loyalty to Philip II of Spain as their sovereign and become a Republic.
• Robert Browne and his Brownist companions were obliged to leave England and went to Middelburg, in the Netherlands. See Congregational church
• Russia begins the conquest of Siberia
• Finland becomes a grand duchy.

[edit] Births

• January 4 - James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar (died 1656)
• February 17 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
• March 16 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian (died 1647)
• October 9 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (died 1638)
• October 21 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (died 1641)
• Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (died 1639)
• Gasparo Aselli, Italian physician (died 1626)
• Sisto Badalocchio, Italian painter and engraver (died 1647)
• Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit writer of devotional literature
• Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (died 1621)
• Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, French monk who introduced Jansenism into France (died 1643)
• Charles Malapert, Belgian Jesuit writer (died 1630)
• Lukasz Opalinski (1581-1654), Polish nobleman (died 1654)
• Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist (died 1613)
• Johannes Rudbeckius, bishop at Västerås (died 1646)
• Choghtu Khong Tayiji, ruler of the Khalkha Mongols (died 1637)

See also Category: 1581 births.

[edit] Deaths

• June 2 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (born 1525)
• July 11 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval officer (b. 1500)
• August 21 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
• September 1 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (born 1534)
• September 30 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
• October 9 - October 9 - Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin-America, patron saint of Colombia (b. 1526)
• October 23 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
• November 7 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar (b. c1505)
• December 1 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
• December 1 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (martyred) (born 1550)
• Christopher Bathory, prince of Transylvania (b. 1530)
• Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Spanish conquistador (b. c1492)
• Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
• Jan Kostka (1529-1581), Polish noble (b. 1529)
• Motonobu Okabe, Japanese warrior
• Guillaume Postel, French linguist (b. 1510)
• Nicholas Sander, English Catholic propagandist (b. 1530)

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