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{{Year in various calendars|1583}}
'''1583''' ([[Roman numerals|MDLXXXIII]]) was a [[common year]] [[Common year starting on Saturday|starting on Saturday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] and a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] in the [[Julian calendar]]. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.
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* [[Newfoundland]] claimed by [[Kingdom of England|England]].
* [[University of Edinburgh]] started.
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* [[January 8]] – [[Simon Episcopius]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1643]])
* [[March 3]] – [[Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury]], English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. [[1648]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Hugo Grotius]], Dutch philosopher and writer (d. [[1645]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Axel Oxenstierna]], Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (d. [[1654]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Jacob De la Gardie]], Swedish soldier and statesman (d. [[1652]])
* [[July 2]] – [[Dodo zu Innhausen und Knyphausen|Dodo Knyphausen]], German soldier (d. [[1636]])
* September – [[Girolamo Frescobaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1643]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Albrecht von Wallenstein]], Austrian general (d. [[1634]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar]], Spanish poet (d. [[1641]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey]], English adventurer and soldier (d. [[1642]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Orlando Gibbons]], English composer (d. [[1625]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer]], Dutch pirate and buccaneer (d. [[1627]])
** [[Johann Heinrich Alting]], German divine (d. [[1644]])
** [[John Beaumont (poet)|John Beaumont]], English poet (d. [[1627]])
** [[House of Elzevir|Bonaventura Elzevir]], Dutch printer (d. [[1652]])
** [[Stanisław Lubomirski (1583-1649)|Stanisław Lubomirski]], Polish nobleman (d. [[1649]])
** [[Philip Massinger]], English dramatist (d. [[1640]])
** [[Hayashi Razan]], Japanese neo-Confucianist scholar (d. [[1657]])
* ''probable''
** [[Alexander Henderson (theologian)|Alexander Henderson]], Scottish theologian (d. [[1646]])
** [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba|Nzinga]], warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba (d. [[1663]])
** [[Aurelian Townshend]], English poet (d. [[1643]])
== Deaths ==
* [[March 18]] – King [[Magnus of Livonia]] (b. [[1540]])
* April – [[Lucas David]], Prussian historian (b. [[1503]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Zacharias Ursinus]], German theologian (b. [[1534]])
* [[June 6]]
** [[Nakagawa Kiyohide]], Japanese military commander (b. [[1556]])
** [[Shibata Katsutoyo]], Japanese military commander (b. [[1556]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex]], Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (b. [[1525]])
* June – [[Oda Nobutaka]], Japanese samurai (b. [[1558]])
* [[July 1]] – [[Sakuma Morimasa]], Japanese samurai and warlord (beheaded)
* [[July 6]] – [[Edmund Grindal]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1519]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Humphrey Gilbert]], English explorer (born c. [[1537]])
* [[September 16]] – [[Catherine Jagiellon]], queen of [[John II of Sweden]] (b. [[1526]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond]], Irish rebel
* [[November 24]] – [[René de Birague]], French cardinal and chancellor (b. [[1506]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)|Ivan Fyodorov]], Russian printer
* [[December 31]] – [[Thomas Erastus]], Swiss theologian (b. [[1524]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Shibata Katsuie]], Japanese military commander (b. [[1530]])
** [[Andrei Kurbskii]], Russian writer (b. [[1528]])
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