What Happened in June 1588

Historical Events

  • Jun 19 Spanish Armada heavily damaged in storms in the Bay of Biscay along the Galician coast of Spain, some ships return to A Coruña for repairs

Famous Birthdays

  • Jun 9 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1666)
  • Jun 11 George Wither, English writer (Abuses Stript and Whipt), born in Hampshire, England (d. 1667)

Famous Deaths

  • Jun 10 Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
  • Jun 18 Anna van Nassau, Dutch daughter of William I, Prince of Orange and his second wife, Anna of Saxony and wife of William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 24
  • Jun 18 Robert Crowley, English printer, Protestant clergyman and poet (1st translation of the Gospels into Welsh), dies at about 71