1583

Events

• August 5 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi commences construction of Osaka Castle in Japan.
• King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating the Tounis College - what is now the University of Edinburgh. For some unknown reason, the charter was dated a year earlier, as 1582.
• First documented battle of India's independence against an European colonial ruler was fought by the Desais of Cuncolim in Goa against the Portuguese.

Births

• September - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboard composer († 1643)
• Nzinga, warrior queen of Ndongo and Matamba, in what is now Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist († 1625)

Deaths

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