1583

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

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Year 1583 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1583

Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Tounis College - what is now the University of Edinburgh. For some unknown reason, the charter was dated a year earlier, as 1582.
First documented battle of India's independence against an European colonial ruler was fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa against the Portuguese.
World's oldest, intact, still-surviving amusement park, Dyrehavsbakken was founded.

January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (died 1643)
March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (died 1648)
April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (died 1645)
June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (died 1654)
June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (died 1636)
September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (died 1643)
September 24 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
November 24 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (d. 1641)
December 17 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English adventurer and soldier (killed in battle) (d. 1642)
December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
date unknown
- Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (died 1644)
- John Beaumont, English poet (died 1627)
- Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)
- Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (died 1649)
- Philip Massinger, English dramatist (died 1640)
- Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
probable
- Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (died 1646)
- Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (died 1663)
- Aurelian Townshend, English poet (died 1643)

See also Category: 1583 births.

January 12 - Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Spanish general and governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born 1508)
January 18 - Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (b. 1622)
February 18 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author (born 1503)
March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (born 1503)
May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (born 1534)
June 6
- Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (born 1556)
- Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (born 1556)
June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1525)
June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (born 1558)
July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1519)
September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c1537)
September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (born 1526)
November 11 - Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
November 24 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (b. 1506)
December 14 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer
December 31 - Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (born 1524)
date unknown
- Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (born 1530)
- Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (born 1528)

See also Category: 1583 deaths.