1579

This article is about the year 1579. For the number, see 1579 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1576 1577 1578 – 1579 – 1580 1581 1582

1579 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1579 MDLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2332
Armenian calendar	1028 ԹՎ ՌԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6329
Bengali calendar	986
Berber calendar	2529
English Regnal year	21 Eliz. 1 – 22 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2123
Burmese calendar	941
Byzantine calendar	7087–7088
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4275 or 4215     — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4276 or 4216
Coptic calendar	1295–1296
Discordian calendar	2745
Ethiopian calendar	1571–1572
Hebrew calendar	5339–5340
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1635–1636
- Shaka Samvat	1501–1502
- Kali Yuga	4680–4681
Holocene calendar	11579
Igbo calendar	579–580
Iranian calendar	957–958
Islamic calendar	986–987
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 7 (天正７年)
Julian calendar	1579 MDLXXIX
Korean calendar	3912
Minguo calendar	333 before ROC 民前333年
Thai solar calendar	2121–2122

Year 1579 (MDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 6 – The Union of Atrecht unites the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma, governor in the name of king Philip II of Spain.
• January 23 – The Union of Utrecht unites the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the United Provinces. William I of Orange becomes Stadtholder, and the Duc d'Anjou, younger brother of Henry III of France, is invited to become hereditary sovereign.
• March – Maastricht is captured by the Spanish under Parma.
• May 25 – Japan – Battle of Mimaomote: Doi Kiyonaga defeats the forces of Kumu Yorinobu.
• June 17 – Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.
• July 16 – James FitzMaurice FitzGerald lands with a small force of Irish, Spanish, and Italian troops at Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in south-western Ireland and commences the Second Desmond Rebellion against the rule in Ireland of Elizabeth I of England.

July–December

• July 13 – Karlovac is founded.

Date unknown

• Akbar abolishes jizya.
• The municipality of Boac in Marinduque, Philippines is founded.

Births

• February 9 – Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar and antiquary (d. 1639)
• April 12 – François de Bassompierre, French courtier (d. 1646)
• May 2 – Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
• July 2 – Janusz Radziwiłł, Lithuanian and Polish nobleman (d. 1620)
• July 13 – Arthur Dee, English physician and alchemist (d. 1651)
• August 1 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist (d. 1644)
• August 18 – Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun (d. 1640)
• August 21 – Henri, duc de Rohan (d. 1638)
• August 23 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish scholar and historian (d. 1625)
• October 4 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal (d. 1644)
• November 11 – Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
• December 9 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian monk, Roman Catholic saint (d. 1639)
• December 20 (bapt.) – John Fletcher, English dramatist (d. 1625)
• date unknown
  • Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading, royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1652)
  • Arthur Johnston, Scottish physician and poet (d. 1641)
  • John Ogilvie, Scottish Jesuit, Roman Catholic saint (martyred 1615)

Deaths

• February 16 – Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish explorer (b. 1509)
• February 20 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
• April 25 – John Stuart, 4th Earl of Atholl
• May 6 – François de Montmorency, French nobleman (b. 1530)
• June 25 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1541)
• June 30 – Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary (b. 1505)
• August 3 – Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (b. 1560)
• August 5 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (b. 1504)
• October 12 – Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (b. 1505)
• November 15 – Francis David, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
• November 21 – Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier (b. 1519)
• December 21 – Vicente Masip, Spanish painter (b. 1506)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Adriani, Italian historian (b. c. 1512)
  • Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán (b. 1524)
  • Hieronim Jarosz Sieniawski, Polish nobleman (b. 1516)
  • William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (b. 1524)
• probable - Hans Staden, German adventurer (b. 1525)