1580
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th centuryDecades: 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s
Years: 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 - 1580 - 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585
Events
- Michel de Montaigne publishes first Essay.
- September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
- April 18 - baptise of Thomas Middleton - English Elizabethan playwright
- Willebrord van Roijen Snell , Dutch mathematician.
- Frans Hals - Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.
