What is 1581?
{{Redlinks|date=April 2024}} {{Year nav|1581}} {{Year in various calendars|1581}} '''1581''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXXXI]]) was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] in the [[Julian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Thursday]] in the [[proleptic Gregorian calendar]]. == 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 [[Category:1581| ]]