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

These date are often disputed by authorities.

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

January 8 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
March 3 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)
April 10 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (d. 1645)
June 16 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. 1654)
June 20 - Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
July 2 - Dodo Knyphausen, German soldier (d. 1636)
September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (d. 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 (d. 1642)
December 25 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (d. 1625)
date unknown
- Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer, Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. 1627)
- Johann Heinrich Alting, German divine (d. 1644)
- John Beaumont, English poet (d. 1627)
- Bonaventura Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
- Stanisław Lubomirski, Polish nobleman (d. 1649)
- Philip Massinger, English dramatist (d. 1640)
- Hayashi Razan, Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. 1657)
probable
- Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian (d. 1646)
- Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. 1663)
- Aurelian Townshend, English poet (d. 1643)

See also Category: 1583 births.

March 18 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
April - Lucas David, Prussian historian (b. 1503)
May 6 – Zacharias Ursinus, German theologian (b. 1534)
June 6
- Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
- Shibata Katsutoyo, Japanese military commander (b. 1556)
June 9 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1525)
June - Oda Nobutaka, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
July 1 - Sakuma Morimasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
July 6 - Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1519)
September 9 - Humphrey Gilbert, English explorer (born c. 1537)
September 16 – Catherine Jagiellon, queen of John II of Sweden (b. 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 (b. 1524)
date unknown
- Shibata Katsuie, Japanese military commander (b. 1530)
- Andrei Kurbskii, Russian writer (b. 1528)

See also Category: 1583 deaths.