Major Events
- Jan 1 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
- Jan 12 Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
- Feb 21 Groningen, Netherlands, begins using Gregorian calendar
- Mar 18 Dutch States General and Anjou sign treaty
- Jun 17 Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
- Jun 18 Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383
- Jul 17 Spanish and Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
- Aug 5 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown, the first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire
- Sep 9 Sinking of the English ship Squirrel off the Azores with explorer and founder of Newfoundland, Humphrey Gilbert, on board
- Nov 5 Dutch Count William IV van den Bergh, Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen and his family taken prisoner on suspicion of treason by forces of William I of Orange
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Richard Martin of London takes out first life insurance policy, on William Gibbons; premium was £383
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Who Died in 1583
- Feb 9 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
- Feb 18 Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
- Mar 4 Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
- Mar 6 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism), dies at 48
- Mar 18 King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
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Famous Weddings in 1583
- Apr 12 William I of Orange marries Louise de Coligny, daughter of the Admiral of France
Elizabeth I
Philip II of Spain