1586

Events

• November 19 – Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned.
• The reign of Emperor Ogimachi of Japan ends and 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 Angélica.
• 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 circumnavigation of the globe.

Births

• October 9 – Archduke Leopold V of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632)
• Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654)
• Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel and Surrey (d. 1646)
• Cornelis van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter
• Jacob Revius, poet and Bible translator

Deaths

• January 25 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
• June 28 – Primoz Trubar, Slovenian protestant writer (b. 1508)
• September 20 – Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (executed) (d. 1558)
• October 17 – Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, and soldier (killed in battle) (b. 1554)
• Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (executed) (b. 1561)
• Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer
• Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1521)
• King Stefan I of Poland (b. 1533)
• Theoleptus II, Patriarch of Constantinople