Page 2: Historical Events In 1585

Dec 20   English fleet & earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen on this day in history.   

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Jan 06   Claude Favre baron de Perouges seigneur de Vaugelas, French grammarian was born in the year 1585.   

Jan 27   On this day in history birth of hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)   

Feb 12   Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy was born on this day in history.   

Mar 05   On this day in history birth of johan Georg I, elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)   

Mar 05   John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656) was born on this day in history.   

Mar 16   In the year 1585 birth of gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)   

Jun 20   On this day in history birth of lazaro Valvasensi, composer   

Sep 09   In the year 1585 birth of armand-Jean du Plessicide de Richelieu, premier of France (1624-42)   

Jan 16   In the year 1585 death of edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)   

Feb 06   Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518) died in the year 1585.   

Feb 13   Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515) died on this day in history.   

Mar 10   In the year 1585 rembert Dodoens, [Rembertus Dodonaeus], physician/botanist, dies at 67   

Apr 04   On this day in history caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57   

Apr 10   On this day in history gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies   

May 15   Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535) died in the year 1585.   

Jun 04   Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.