1584

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s
Years:	1581 1582 1583 - 1584 - 1585 1586 1587

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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).

[edit] 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.

Ghent falls to the Spanish.

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 modern North Carolina for a suitable location for England's first North American colony.

See also Category: 1584 births.

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 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)
- Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
- 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.