Year
1584 was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1584
Undated
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
- 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
- probable
- See also :Category: 1584 deaths.