This page relates to the year 1586 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

• the corsair Thomas Cavendish explores the delta of the Orénoque to the research of the Eldorado.

• Francis Drake seizes Cartagena, in Colombia.

Africa

• Mohamed Bano, brother of Mohamed el-Hadj, succeeds to him the head of the Empire Songhaï, but is inapt to control. Anarchy and the Famine precipitate its fall. He dies in 1588 of a congestion, a few moment before joining battle with his brother the galama Sadiki.

Europe

• February: Continuation of the war in France. Henri Ier de Guise parade in Paris.
• June 16th: Marie Stuart, queen of Scotland, recognizes Philippe II of Spain like heir.
• July 6th: Treaty of Berwick between Jacques VI of Scotland and Elisabeth Anger of England.
• July 29th Tjumen is the first city founded in Siberia by the Russian .
• August: Sir Francis Walsingham, thanks to its spies, surprises a plot assembled by Badington and inspired by the Ballard Jesuit: it is a question of assassinating Elisabeth Ire of England and of replacing it by Marie Stuart with the assistance of Philippe II of Spain. Walsingham intercepts letters which make it possible to stop Ballard, Badington and a score of accomplices who are considered and carried out. Marie Stuart is stopped in September. She is declared guilty of treason and is condemned to death.
• September 18th: Believed of the the Rhone in Avignon.
• September 22nd: Spanish Victoire on the Netherlands with the battle of Zutphen. The favorie of the queen Elisabeth Ire of England Philip Sidney is mortally wounded.
• December 3rd: Bubble postquam verus . Sixte Quint fixes the number of the cardinals at 70: six cardinal-bishops, 50 cardinal-priests, and 14 cardinal-deacons.
• December 6th: Charles de Bourgneuf is named bishop of Saint-Malo. It will remain it until its resignation in 1596.
• December, France: Failure of the conferences of Saint-Brice and Cognac.

• nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
• agricultural Crisis in Europe (1586 - 1590).
• Crisis frumentaire in Spain and Italy (fine in 1591).
• Famine in the Southern half of the France, in particular in the Massif Central.
• Plague with Montpellier (1586 - 1589).
• Philippe II of Spain founds a bureaucratic system complexes, famous for its slowness, which is worth to him the nicknames of rey Papelero and rey Prudente .
• Maurice de Nassau succeeds his/her father William of Orange the head of the troops of the Union of Utrecht.
• Foundation of Samara on the the Volga.

Arts & cultures

• February 28th: First marriage of the type-setter Carlo Gesualdo, with Maria d' Avalos, which will finish tragically.

• Christopher Marlowe writes its drama on Tamerlan, Tamburlaine .
• the King Torrismond , written poetic tragedy with Mantoue by the Cup.
• Baptiste Androuet of the Hoop becomes architect as a chief of the buildings of the king.

Sciences & technology

• Simon Stevin publishes Statique and hydrostatic ( De Beghinselen der Weeghconst ) in which it exposes the theorem of the triangle of the forces.

Economy & company

• the bank of Venice, the Rialto, is founded.
• New charter of the Anglo-Russian company in charge of the foreign trade of the Russia.
• One starts to smoke the Pipe in England.

Births in 1586

• April 2nd: Pietro della Valle known as Pellegrino , Exploring adventurer and Italian of the 17th century. († April 21st 1652).
• May 7th: François IV of Mantoue, noble Italian, duke of Mantoue and Montferrat († December 22nd 1612, 26 years)
• August 17th: Johann Valentine Andreae, German theologist , author of the chymic Weddings of Kristian RosenKreutz .

Death in 1586

• May 9th: Shine of Morals, painter Spanish (born v. 1520).

• June 28th: Primus Truber (born in 1508), Slovenien theologist protesting, translator of the Slovenien Bible in .
• September 21st: Granvelle, minister of Philippe II of Spain (born in 1517) to Madrid.
• October 17th: Sir Philip Sidney (born in 1554), poet, courtier and soldier English. Appointed governor of Flessingue to the Netherlands (1585), it leaves in forwarding against the Spaniards and is mortally wounded at the time of the attack of a convoy with Zutphen.
• December 12th: Etienne ('' Stefan '') Batory, king of Poland and palatine of Hungary.

• nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
• Andrea Gabrieli, organist and Italian, choirmaster type-setter of Saint-Marc (Venice, v. 1510 - after 1586).

Easter Day

• April 6th: Sunday of Easter
• For other religious holidays, to see Comput

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