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What Happened in September 1586

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Historical Events

  • Sep 22 Battle at Zutphen: Dutch army, assisted by the English, against the Spanish

Famous Birthdays

  • Sep 15 Cristóbal de Isla Diego, Spanish Baroque composer and conductor, baptized in Berlanga de Duero, Spain (d. 1651)
Born in 1586

Famous Deaths

  • Sep 20 Anthony Babington, English page and conspirator to Mary, Queen of Scots convicted of plotting the assassination of Elizabeth I, hanged, drawn and quartered at 24
  • Sep 21 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Spanish cardinal and viceroy of Naples (1571-75), dies at 69

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