In the year 1585, the Spanish seize Brussels (Feb), Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces whereby its role as an important trade city is overtaken by Amsterdam (Aug 17), **a first group of colonists lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony **on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina (Aug 17), Toyotomi Hideyoshi invades the island of Shikoku, the first recorded commercial importation of chocolate to Europe occurs with shipment from Veracruz in Mexico to Seville, Spain - and all these fine people were born:
1585-0106 Claude Favre de Vaugelas* grammarian/man of letters - Meximieux, Duchy of Savoy (1650/65)
1585-0109 Richard Grosvenor* High Sheriff of Cheshire/politician - Eaton Hall, Cheshire, England (1645/60)
1585-0123 Mary Ward* (b Joan Ward) Catholic nun - Mulwith, Yorkshire, England (1645/60)
1585-0127 Hendrick Avercamp (B) painter/“the mute of Kampen” - Amsterdam, Spanish Netherlands (1634/49)
1585-0131 Daniel Schwenter* German Orientalist/ mathematician/inventor - Nuremberg, Bavaria (1636/50)
1585-0202 Judith Quiney (B) (b Shakespeare) daughter of William Shakespeare/twin of Hamnet - Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (1662/77)
1585-0202 Hamnet Shakespeare (B) twin of Judith - Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1596/11)
1585-0225 Pieter van den Broecke* Dutch cloth merchant/one of the first Dutchmen to taste coffee - Antwerp, the Seventeen Provinces (1640/55)
1585-0302 John Macias* (b Juan de Arcas y Sánchez) Dominican Friar/ evangelized in Peru - Ribera del Fresno, Extremadura, Spain (1645/60)
1585-0316 Gerbrand Bredero* poet/playwright - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1618/33)
1585-0322 Krzysztof Radziwiłł* Polish-Lithuanian nobleman/politician/ military commander - Biržai Castle, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1640/55)
1585-0406 Marzio Ginetti* Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal - Velletri, Lazio (1671/85)
1585-0428 George Goring* soldier/ politician/nobleman - Sussex, England (1663/77)
1585-0505 Vincenzo Carafa* Italian Jesuit priest/spiritual writer - Andria, Apulia (1649/64)
1585-0512 John Oglander* politician/diarist - Nunwell House, Isle of Wight, England (1655/70)
1585-0611 Evert Horn* soldier/Governor of Narva - Haapsalu Castle, Swedish Estonia (1615/30)
1585-0613 Antonio Ruiz de Montoya* Jesuit priest/missionary/linguist - Lima, Peru (1652/66)
1585-0624 Johannes Lippius* German theologian/composer/music theorist - Strasbourg, Free Imperial City, Holy Roman Empire (1612/27)
1585-0702 Jean Guiton* shipowner/ Huguenot leader/mayor - La Rochelle, France (1654/68)
1585-0711 Nicolaus Hunnius* German theologian - Marburg, Hesse (1643/57)
1585-0711 Timothy Turner* judge - Shropshire, England (1677/91)
1585-0726 Dániel Esterházy* nobleman/father of 16 children - Gálantha, Kingdom of Hungary (1654/68)
1585-0803 Thomas Burdett* High Sheriff of Derbyshire/nobleman - England (c.1647/61)
1585-0805 Jesper Brochmand* theologian/bishop - Køge, Sjælland, Denmark (1652/66)
1585-0825 Giovanni Biliverti* (b Jan Bilevelt) painter - Florence, Duchy of Florence (1644/58)
1585-0909 Cardinal Richelieu* (b Armand Jean du Plessis) clergyman/ statesman - Paris, Kingdom of France (1642/57)
1585-0915 Ottavio Vannini* painter - Florence, Duchy of Florence (c.1643/c.58)
1585-0927 John Strangways* politician/Sheriff of Dorset - Melbury, Somerset, England (1666/81)
1585-1004 Anna of Tyrol* Archduchess of Austria/Holy Roman Empress - Innsbruck, Austria (1618/33)
1585-1018 Heinrich Schütz* German organist/composer - Köstrich, Thuringia (1672/87)
1585-1028 Cornelius Jansen* Catholic bishop/father of Jansenism - Acquoy, County of Holland, Dutch Republic (1638/52)
1585-1101 Jan Brożek* mathematician/ astronomer/writer - Kurzelów, Poland (1652/67)
1585-1101 Adriaan Pauw* Grand Pensionary of Holland – Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1653/67)
1585-1116 Reinhold Franckenberger* German historian - Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony (1664/78)
1585-1130 Filippo Benedetto de Sio* Roman Catholic bishop - Cava, Italy (1651/65)
1585-1204 John Cotton* clergyman in England and the American colonies/ politician/founder of Boston – Derby, England (1652/67)
1585-1205
1585-1213 William Drummond of Hawthornden* poet - Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian, Scotland (1649/63)
1585-1231 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba* military leader - Cabra, Province of Córdoba, Spain (1635/49)
1585-1231 Sumitomo Masatomo* 住友 政友 monk/copper mining businessman - Sakai, Muromachi, Japan (1652/66)
Updated 23.1.2023-1
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