1583

Events of 1583

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 a 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 founded.

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)
July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (died 1636)
September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (died 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 (killed in battle) (d. 1642)
December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
date unknown

June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (born 1558)
July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)
September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c1537)
September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (born 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 (born 1524)
date unknown