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1584 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1584 MDLXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2337
Armenian calendar	1033 ԹՎ ՌԼԳ
Assyrian calendar	6334
Bahá'í calendar	−260 – −259
Bengali calendar	991
Berber calendar	2534
English Regnal year	26 Eliz. 1 – 27 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2128
Burmese calendar	946
Byzantine calendar	7092–7093
Chinese calendar	癸未年 (Water Goat) 4280 or 4220 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4281 or 4221
Coptic calendar	1300–1301
Discordian calendar	2750
Ethiopian calendar	1576–1577
Hebrew calendar	5344–5345
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1640–1641
- Shaka Samvat	1506–1507
- Kali Yuga	4685–4686
Holocene calendar	11584
Igbo calendar	584–585
Iranian calendar	962–963
Islamic calendar	991–992
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 12 (天正１２年)
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3917
Minguo calendar	328 before ROC 民前328年
Thai solar calendar	2127
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Ghent falls to the Spanish.

1584 (MDLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–March – Archangelsk is founded as New Kholmogory in northern Russia by Ivan the Terrible.
January 11 – Sir Walter Mildmay is given a royal licence to found Emmanuel College, Cambridge.^[1]
March 18 (N.S. March 28) – Death of Ivan the Terrible, ruler of Russia since 1533. He is succeeded as Tsar by his son Feodor.
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 – Walter Ralegh sends Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island.^[2]
June 11 – Walk (modern-day Valka and Valga, towns in Latvia and Estonia respectively) receives city rights from Polish king Stefan Bathory.

July 5 – The Maronite College is established in Rome.
July 10 – William I of Orange is assassinated.
September 17 – Ghent falls into the hands of Alexander Farnese, governor of the Spanish Netherlands.^[3]
December – The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

Ratu Hijau becomes queen regnant of the once Malay Pattani Kingdom.
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.
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.
This year, according to Italian heretic Jacopo Brocardo, is regarded as an apocalyptic inauguration of a major new cycle.

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 13 – Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
July 23 – John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522)
August 22 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (b. 1530)
October – Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1541)
October 29 – Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha, Turkish grand vizier
November 4 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)
date unknown
- Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524)
- 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

↑ Ford, L. L. (2004). "Mildmay, Sir Walter (1520/21–1589)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18696. Retrieved 2013-09-02. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Grun, Bernard (1991). The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 259. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.
↑ Ripley, George; Dana, Charles A. (1873). "Ghent". The American Cyclopaedia 7. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Retrieved 2011-12-04.

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