What Happened in February 1585

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 12 Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Danish physician, theologian, writer on anatomy, born in Malmö, Denmark (modern Sweden) (d. 1629)
  • Feb 25 Pieter van den Broecke, Dutch merchant with East India Company who established first Dutch trade with Arabia, born in Antwerp (d. 1640)

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 6 Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
  • Feb 13 Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar, dies at 69