# Marie of Prussia ( 23 January 1579 – 21 February 1649 ).

* 1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint ( d. 1639 )

* 1579 – ( baptized ) John Fletcher, English playwright ( d. 1625 )

* 1579 – Vicente Masip, Spanish painter

He secondly married ( 1579 ) Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( October 30, 1563 – 1639 ), daughter of William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark.

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

* 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion ( modern California ) for England.

* 1639 – Melchior Franck, German composer ( b. 1579 )

* 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

* 1579 – The Union of Arras is signed.

* 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.

Anne Vavasour, with whom Oxford had a tempestuous extramarital affair from 1579 – 81.

* 1544 – Takenaka Shigeharu, Japanese samurai ( d. 1579 )

The first appearance of the sestina in English print is " Ye wastefull woodes ", comprising lines 151 – 89 of the August Æglogue in Edmund Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar, published in 1579.

In 1579, Ieyasu's wife, and his eldest son, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, were accused by Nobunaga of conspiring with Takeda Katsuyori to assassinate Nobunaga, whose daughter Tokuhime ( 1559 – 1636 ) was married to Nobuyasu.

* September 7 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman and historian ( b. 1579 )

* November 10 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer ( b. 1579 )

* François de Bassompierre of France ( 1579 – 1646 ), courtier and Marshal of France

* George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore of England ( 1579 – 1632 ), nobleman, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State, and English colonizer of the North America ( most notably the founder of the Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and future founder of Maryland )

* Thomas Dempster of Scotland ( 1579 – 1625 ), scholar and historian

* October 12 – François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France ( b. 1579 )

* August – John Fletcher, English writer ( b. 1579 )

* September 26 – Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian ( b. 1579 )

Luis Vélez de Guevara ( born Luis Vélez de Santander ) ( 1 August 1579 – 10 November 1644 ) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.

The oldest Spanish land grant in the area was in 1579 to Luis de los Rios Proaño.

* November 10-Luís Vélez de Guevara, dramatist and novelist ( born 1579 )

The closest she came to marriage was between 1579 and 1581, when she was courted by Francis, Duke of Anjou, the son of Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici.

** Tomé de Sousa, Portuguese nobleman, first general-governor of Brazil ( d. 1573 or 1579 )

* April 13 – Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader ( b. 1579 )

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* February 6 – Martin de Redin, 58th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1579 )

* June 17 – François de Montmorency ( d. 1579 )

* March 17 – Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán ( d. 1579 )

** Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, lawyer ( d. 1579 )

The Protestant Academy of Sedan had been founded in 1579 at the initiative of Françoise de Bourbon, widow of Henri-Robert de la Marck ; in 1682 the Protestant Academy at Sedan was suppressed and de Moivre enrolled to study logic at Saumur for two years.

* At least 27 Maya codices were ceremonially destroyed by Diego de Landa ( 1524 – 1579 ), bishop of Yucatán, on 12 July 1562.

Church of the Company of Jesus ( Iglesia de la Compañia de Jesús ), located to the southwest of the Zócalo, was built by the Jesuits in 1579 and consecrated to Francis Xavier and the Immaculate Conception.

Examples included Johannes Helferich ( 1579 ), George Sandys ( 1615 ), Johann Michael Vansleb ( 1677 ), Benoît de Maillet ( 1735 ) and Elliot Warburton ( 1844 ).

François de Bassompierre ( April 12, 1579 – October 12, 1646 ) was a French courtier.

In 1579, the names Micquetõ, Micquelle appeared for the first time in Martin de Hoyarçabal's navigational pilot.

Henri ( II ) de Rohan ( 21 August 1579 – 13 April 1638 ), Duke of Rohan and Prince of Léon, was a French soldier, writer and leader of the Huguenots.

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa wrote in 1579 that " they are now called after St Felix and St Ambor ( i. e. Felix and Nabor )".