1579

Year 1579 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the.

Events of 1579

 * - The unites the southern  under the, governor in the name of king.
 * - The  unites the northern Netherlands in a confederation called the .   becomes Stadtholder, and the, younger brother of  is invited to become hereditary sovereign.
 * - Capture of by the Spanish under Parma.
 * -, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now , which he claims for . With an  claim here and in , 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" (meaning, New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.

Births

 * -, Dutch classical scholar and antiquary (died )
 * -, French courtier (died )
 * -, Japanese shogun (died )
 * -, Polish nobleman (died )
 * -, English physician and alchemist (died )
 * -, Spanish dramatist and novelist (died )
 * -, Roman Catholic nun (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, Scottish scholar and historian (died )
 * -, Italian cardinal (died )
 * December -, English writer (died )
 * -, Peruvian monk and saint (died )
 * date unknown
 * , royalist commander in the English Civil War (died )
 * , Flemish painter (died )
 * , English colonist (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * February -, Scottish politician and religious reformer (born )
 * -, English politician (born )
 * -, French nobleman (born )
 * -, Japanese samurai (born )
 * -, Turkish Janissary (born )
 * -, Polish noblewoman (born )
 * -, Polish cardinal (born )
 * -, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (born )
 * -, Hungarian religious reformer (born )
 * -, English merchant and financier (born )
 * -, Spanish painter (born )
 * date unknown
 * , Italian historian (born c)
 * , Bishop of the Yucatán (born )
 * , Spanish explorer (born )
 * , Polish nobleman (born )
 * , German adventurer (born )
 * , English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born )
 * , English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born )


 * See also .