Events

• Master Thomas Giles takes charge of the Children of Paul's
  Children of Paul's
  The Children of Paul's was the name of a troupe of boy actors in Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Along with the Children of the Chapel, the Children of Paul's were the most important of the companies of boy players that constituted a distinctive feature of English Renaissance theatre.St...
  
  ; this is the start of a close association with the works of John Lyly
  John Lyly
  John Lyly was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues,The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. Lyly's linguistic style, originating in his first books, is known as Euphuism.-Biography:John Lyly was born in Kent, England, in 1553/1554...
  
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New books

• A Booke of Cookry
• Giordano Bruno
  Giordano Bruno
  Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
  
   - La Cena de le Ceneri ("Ash Wednesday Supper")
• John Dee
  John Dee
  John Dee was a Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I.John Dee may also refer to:* John Dee , Basketball coach...
  
   - 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys) (written in Cracow).
• James VI of Scotland
  James I of England
  James VI and I was King of Scots as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on 24 March 1603...
  
   - Some Reulis and Cautelis
• David Powel
  David Powel
  David Powel was a Welsh Church of England clergyman and historian who published the first printed history of Wales in 1584.-Life:...
  
   - Historie of Cambria
• Reginald Scot
  Reginald Scot
  Reginald Scot was an English country gentleman and Member of Parliament, now remembered as the author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, which was published in 1584. It was written against the belief in witches, to show that witchcraft did not exist...
  
   - Discoverie of Witchcraft
  Discoverie of Witchcraft
  The Discoverie of Witchcraft was a partially sceptical book published by the English gentleman Reginald Scot in 1584, and intended as an exposé of medieval witchcraft...
  
  
• "John Soowthern" - Pandora

New drama

• Robert Wilson
  Robert Wilson (dramatist)
  Robert Wilson , was an Elizabethan dramatist who worked primarily in the 1580s and 1590s. He is also believed to have been an actor who specialized in clown roles....
  
   (attr.) - The Three Ladies of London
  The Three Ladies of London
  The Three Ladies of London is an Elizabethan era stage play, first published in 1584. It is unusual and noteworthy as a philo-Semitic response to the prevailing anti-Semitism of Elizabethan drama and the larger contemporaneous English society....
  
  

Births

• August 29 - Patrick Young
  Patrick Young
  Patrick Young was a Scottish scholar and royal librarian to King James VI and I, and King Charles I. He was a noted Biblical and patristic scholar.-Life:...
  
  , scholar and Scottish royal librarian (died 1652)
• September 15 - Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
  Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
  Georg Rudolf Weckherlin was a German poet. He was among the poets before Martin Opitz who tried to introduce Renaissance forms and feelings into German verse. For a short time, he worked with John Milton in England....
  
  , poet (died 1653)

Deaths

• July 23 - John Day
  John Day (printer)
  John Day was an English Protestant printer. He specialised in printing and distributing Protestant literature and pamphlets, and produced many small-format religious books, such as ABCs, sermons, and translations of psalms...
  
  , English Protestant printer (born c.1522)
• date unknown - Gerhard Dorn
  Gerhard Dorn
  Gerhard Dorn was a Belgian philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile.-Biography:The details of Gerhard Dorn's early life, along with those of many other 16th century personalities, are lost to history. It is known that he was born about 1530 in Mechelen, which is part of...
  
  , philosopher, translator and polymath (born c.1530)