1584

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  • June 1 - With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France.
  • July 5 - Maronite College established in Rome
  • July 10 - William I of Orange assassinated
  • Dates between October 5 - 14 ignored in the Gregorian Calendar
  • The first translation of the complete Bible into Slovenian language: Bibilija, tu je vse svetu pismu stariga inu noviga testamenta, slovenski tolmačena skuzi Jurija Dalmatina (Wittenberg), i.e. The Bible, it is a Complete Holy Scripture of the Old and of the New Testament, Translated into Slovenian by Jurij Dalmatin.
  • Archangelsk is founded in northern Russia.
  • Feodor I succeeds his father Ivan IV as Tsar of Russia
  • Latin Book of Concord published in Germany
  • Ghent falls to the Spanish.

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