1581

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Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1550s  1560s  1570s  - 1580s -  1590s  1600s  1610s
Years:	1578 1579 1580 - 1581 - 1582 1583 1584

[change] Events

• January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
• April 4 - After going around the world Sir Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I.
• July 26 - The Northern Netherlands becomes free from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration.

[change] Births

• January 4 - James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar
• February 17 - Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest
• March 16 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian
• October 9 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician
• October 21 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter

[change] Deaths

• April 25 - Okabe Motonobu, Japanese warrior
• May 31 - Jan Kostka, Polish noble
• June 2 - James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
• July 11 - Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval officer
• July 22 - Richard Cox, English bishop
• August 21 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai
• September 1 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru
• September 30 - Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer
• October 9 - Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin-America, patron saint of Colombia
• October 23 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
• November 7 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar