1586

Events

19th of November Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned
End of the reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
Emperor Go-Yozei ascends to the throne of Japan
Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes grand minister of Japan
William Harrison becomes canon of Windsor
Luis Barahona de Soto publishes Primera parte de la Ang�lica
William Camden publishes Britannia
Simon Stevin, a Dutch mathematician demonstrates that two objects of different weight fall with the same speed.
Roanoke, the first English colony in the New World, is founded
St. Augustine, Florida, and Santo Domingo in the modern day Dominican Republic are plundered and burned by English sea captain Sir Francis Drake
Jacobus Gallus composes his motet O magnum mysterium
Caesar Baronius publishes a new edition of Roman martyrology
The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England
Thomas Cavendish, English explorer, begins his circumnavigated of the globe.

Births

theologian Johann Valentin Andrea
Axel Oxenstierna's half-brother, Gabriel Bengtsson
Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey
Cornelis van Poelenburgh, a Dutch painter of Italian landscapes
Jacob Revius, poet who also worked also on the new bible translation known as the Statenbijbel

Deaths

Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier, known as a writer of sonnets, killed in the battle of Zutphen
June 28 - Primoz Trubar, the author of the first printed book in Slovenian
Lucas Cranach the Younger, a painter
Sir Anthony Babington, executed for leading the Babington plot.
Stephen B�thory King of Poland.
Joan Naylor, mother of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
Composer Andrea Gabrieli
Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma
Joachim Ernest who united the whole of Anhalt under his rule
Peter Symonds whose will creates a fund to create Peter Symonds College
Theoleptus II, Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople\n