Events of 1584

• May 17 - The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.
• June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
• June 4 - Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony.
• July 5 - The Maronite College is established in Rome.
• July 10 - William I of Orange is assassinated.
• December - The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

Undated

• The first translation of the complete Bible into the Slovenian language: Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina (Wittenberg), is published by Jurij Dalmatin.
• Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.
• Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia.
• Ghent falls to the Spanish.
• Raja Ijau comes to power and rules the once Malay kingdom of Pattani.
• The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.
• An expedition led by Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe explores the Outer Banks of what is now North Carolina for a suitable location for England's first North American colony.

Births

• January 29 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
• March 29 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general (d. 1648)
• April 13 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
• August 13 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)
• December 16 - John Selden, English jurist (d. 1654)
• date unknown
• William Baffin, English explorer (d. 1622)
• Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (d. 1616)
• Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (d. 1629)
• Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (d. 1647)
• Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai, artist, philosopher (d. 1645)
• John Hales, English theologian (d. 1656)
• Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (d. 1643)
• Mathieu Molé, French statesman (d. 1656)
• Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1643)

See also :Category: 1584 births.

Deaths

• January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
• March 10 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
• March 18 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
• May 18
• Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (b. 1559) (in battle)
• Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (in battle) (b. 1536)
• June 19 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
• July - Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1554)
• July 10 - William I of Orange (assassinated) (b. 1533)
• July 12 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)
• July 13 - Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
• July 23 - John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522)
• August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (born 1530)
• October - Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1541)
• November 4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)
• date unknown
• Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524)
• Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1536)
• Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1512)
• Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (b. 1524)
• Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1515)
• Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (b. 1529)
• probable
• James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician

See also :Category: 1584 deaths.