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Everything about 1583 totally explainedYear 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1583
January - June
July - December
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.
Undated
Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating Tounis College (now the University of Edinburgh). For some unknown reason, the charter is dated a year earlier, as 1582.
The first documented battle of India's independence against a European colonial ruler is fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa, against the Portuguese.
The world's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken, is founded.
Births
January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636)
September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
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 (d. 1642)
December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
date unknown
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Deaths
March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503)
May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534)
June 6
June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 1526)
November 11 - Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
November 24 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
December 31 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (b. 1524)
date unknown
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