Events

New books

• John Knox - Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland
• John Lyly - Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne
• Jer nimo Os rio - De rebus Emmanuelis
• George Puttenham (attr.) - The Arte of English Poesie
• Luis Barahona de Soto - Primera parte de la Ang lica
• George Whetstone - English Myrror

New drama

• Christopher Marlowe & Thomas Nashe - Dido, Queen of Carthage (estimated date of writing)

Poetry

See 1586 in poetry

Births

• February 24 - Matthias Faber, German religious writer (died 1653)
• ?April - John Ford, dramatist (died c. 1640)
• date unknown
  • Francisco de Moncada, Spanish diplomat, soldier and historian (died 1635)
  • Lady Mary Wroth, poet (died c. 1651)

Deaths

• April 8 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran theologian (born 1522)
• June 1 - Mart n de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian (born 1491)
• June 28 - Primo Trubar, author of the first printed book in the Slovenian language (born 1508)
• August 1 - Richard Maitland, Scottish poet (born 1496)
• September 20 - Chidiock Tichborne, poet (executed for suspected involvement in the Babington Plot) (born 1558)
• October 17 - Sir Philip Sidney, poet (of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen (born 1554)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Agust n y Albanell, Humanist historian (born 1516)
  • Birbal, Indian poet and wit (born 1528)
  • Giulio Cesare Brancaccio, Italian writer and entertainer (born 1515)
  • Surdas, Hindu devotional poet (born 1479)

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