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Year 1584 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1584

May 17 - The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.
June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
June 4 - Sir Walter Raleigh sends an expedition to Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony.
July 5 - The Maronite College is established in Rome.
July 10 - William I of Orange is assassinated.
December - The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain.

Undated

The first translation of the complete Bible into the Slovenian language: Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina (Wittenberg), is published by Jurij Dalmatin.

Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.

Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia.

Ghent falls to the Spanish.

Raja Ijau comes to power and rules the once Malay kingdom of Pattani.

The Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming Dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention.

An expedition led by Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe explores the Outer Banks of modern North Carolina for a suitable location for England's first North American colony. Births

January 29 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)

March 29 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English parliamentary general (d. 1648)

April 13 - Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)

August 13 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)

December 16 - John Selden, English jurist (d. 1654)

date unknown

William Baffin, English explorer (d. 1622)
Francis Beaumont, English dramatist (d. 1616)
Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (d. 1629)
Matthias Gallas, Austrian soldier (d. 1647)
Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese samurai, artist, philosopher (d. 1645)
John Hales, English theologian (d. 1656)
Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (d. 1643)
Mathieu Molé, French statesman (d. 1656)
Herman Wrangel, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1643)

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Deaths

January 4 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)

March 10 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)

March 18 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)

May 18

Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese military commander (b. 1559) (in battle)
Ikeda Tsuneoki, Japanese daimyo and military commander (in battle) (b. 1536)

June 19 - François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)

July - Francis Throckmorton, conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1554)

July 10 - William I of Orange (assassinated) (b. 1533)

July 12 - Steven Borough, English explorer (b. 1525)

July 23 - John Day, English Protestant printer (b. 1522)

August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (born 1530)

October - Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, Scottish nobleman and politician (b. 1541)

November 4 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (b. 1538)

date unknown

Jan Borukowski, royal secretary of Poland (b. 1524)
Balthasar Gérard, French assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1557)
Yi I of Joseon, Korean Confucian scholar (b. 1536)
Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł, Polish magnate (b. 1512)
Carolus Sigonius, Italian humanist (b. 1524)
Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1515)
Michal Wisniowiecki, prince at Wiśniowiec (b. 1529)

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James Balfour of Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician

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