1581 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1581?
- January 16, 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- April 4, 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- July 26, 1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.
Who Were Born In The Year 1581?
- January 4, 1581 – James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656)
- February 17, 1581 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
- March 16, 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
- April 24, 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
- October 9, 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
- October 21, 1581 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)
Who Died In The Year 1581?
- June 2, 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
- July 11, 1581 – Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval hero
- August 21, 1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
- September 1, 1581 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
- September 30, 1581 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (b. 1518)
- October 9, 1581 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish Dominican and missionary (b. 1526)
- October 23, 1581 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
- November 7, 1581 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
- November 9, 1581 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (b. 1516)
- November 19, 1581 – Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
- December 1, 1581 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (b. 1540)
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