Decades: 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s - 1580s - 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s

Years: 1575 1576 1577 1578 1579 - 1580 - 1581 1582 1583 1584 1585

• Michel de Montaigne publishes first Essay.
• September 26 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe
• 1580-1764 First session if Jewish Waad (Sejm of 4 countries) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates of Jewish local kahals met to discuss issue of taxations and other important for Jewish communities issues.

• April 18 - baptise of Thomas Middleton - English Elizabethan playwright
• Willebrord van Roijen Snell , Dutch mathematician.
• Frans Hals - Dutch painter, mainly of portraits.

• Albrecht Giese IV
• Andrea Palladio
• August 30 - Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy
• November 3 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro\n