1581
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1550s 1560s 1570s – 1580s – 1590s 1600s 1610s |
| Years: | 1578 1579 1580 – 1581 – 1582 1583 1584 |
1581 Media
July 26: Netherlands nobles sign the Act of Abjuration to declare independence from Spain
Princess Hedwig of Denmark
Oil portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) by Sylvester Harding
Guru Ram Das. Pahari. Opaque watercolor on paper. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.
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Statue of Bayinnaung in front of the National Museum
Events
- January 16 – English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
- April 4 – After going around the world Sir Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I.
- July 26 – The Northern Netherlands becomes free from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration.
Births
- January 4 – James Ussher, Anglo-Irish priest and scholar
- February 17 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest
- March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian
- October 9 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician
- October 21 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter
Deaths
- April 25 – Okabe Motonobu, Japanese warrior
- May 31 – Jan Kostka, Polish noble
- June 2 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland
- July 11 – Peder Skram, Danish senator and naval officer
- July 22 – Richard Cox, English bishop
- August 21 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai
- September 1 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru
- September 30 – Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer
- October 9 – Saint Louis Bertrand, Spanish missionary to Latin-America, patron saint of Colombia
- October 23 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
- November 7 – Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar