1588

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Years: 1585 1586 1587 - 1588 - 1589 1590 1591
Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1588 by topic
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Architecture - Art - Music - Science
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**1588 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1588 MDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2341
Armenian calendar	1037 ԹՎ ՌԼԷ
Chinese calendar	4224/4284-12-4 (丁亥年十二月初四日) — to — 4225/4285-11-14 (戊子年十一月十四日)
Ethiopian calendar	1580 – 1581
Hebrew calendar	5348 – 5349
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1643 – 1644
- Shaka Samvat	1510 – 1511
- Kali Yuga	4689 – 4690
Iranian calendar	966 – 967
Islamic calendar	996 – 997
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 16 (天正16年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2248 (皇紀2248年)
- Jōmon Era	11588
Thai solar calendar	2131

1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events

May 12 - Day of the Barricades in Paris. Duke Henry of Guise seizes the city, forcing King Henry III to flee.
May 28 - The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, begins to set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel (it will take until May 30 for all of the ships to leave port).
July - King Henry III of France capitulates to the Duke of Guise and returns to Paris.
July 31 - First engagement between the English and Spanish fleets off Plymouth. The English have the better of it.
August 2 - The English and Spanish fleets meet again off Dorset. (The English fleet is led by Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.) The English again have the better of it.
August 6 - Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is defeated by an English naval force under command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake off the coast of Gravelines, now in France.
August 7 - The English and Spanish fleets again engage off the coast of Flanders. The English again are more successful.
August 8 - August 9 - The Spanish are unable to reach the coast of Flanders to meet up with the army of the Duke of Parma. Medina Sidonia decides to return to Spain.
August 12 - The Spanish fleet sails past the Firth of Forth, and the English cease their pursuit. Much of the Spanish fleet is destroyed as it sails around Scotland and Ireland.
December 23 - Henry III of France strikes his ultra-Catholic enemies, having the Duke of Guise and his brother, Cardinal Louis of Guise, killed, and holding the Cardinal de Bourbon a prisoner.

Ahmad al-Mansur, sultan of Morocco, demands that the king of Songhay give a heavy tribute in exchange of a Saharan salt, probably in an intentional provocation. When Songhay's answer is defiant, he declares war and marches his army through Sahara to Songhay
Russia, regency of Boris Godunov
William Morgan's Welsh translation of the Bible published.