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1581 Calendar

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•  January 16, 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
•  April 4, 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
•  July 26, 1581 – Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.

•  January 4, 1581 – James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656)
•  February 17, 1581 – Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
•  March 16, 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
•  April 24, 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
•  October 9, 1581 – Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
•  October 21, 1581 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (d. 1641)