* 1526 – Muretus, French humanist ( d. 1585 )

* 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.

* Heinrich Schütz ( 1585 – 1672 ) composed " Fili mi, Absalon " as part of his Sinfoniae Sacrae, op. 6

* 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island ( now in North Carolina ) to establish the Roanoke Colony.

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

# Wilhelm of Prussia ( 23 June 1585 – 18 January 1586 ).

John Cotton ( 1585 – 1652 )

* 1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer

* 1642 – Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman ( b. 1585 )

* 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

After the occupation and loss of Le Havre in 1562 – 1563, Elizabeth avoided military expeditions on the continent until 1585, when she sent an English army to aid the Protestant Dutch rebels against Philip II.

* McLaren, A. N. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I: Queen and Commonwealth, 1558 – 1585 ( Cambridge University Press, 1999 ) excerpt and text search

Category: Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )

He served briefly in the Northern Rebellion ( 1569 – 1570 ), and in 1585 he joined the Earl of Essex in Flanders during the Anglo-Spanish War and commanded a cavalry company, but he quit the field before seeing action.

* 1619 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher ( b. 1585 )

He was the eldest of the twelve sons of Edmund Drake ( 1518 – 1585 ), a Protestant farmer, and his wife Mary Mylwaye.

Category: Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )

Conflicts included an attempt to conquer England – a cautious supporter of the Dutch – in the unsuccessful Spanish Armada, an early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), and war with France ( 1590 – 1598 ).

Over time it became clear these privileges would be open to abuse and when in 1620 the Huguenots proclaimed a constitution for the ' Republic of the Reformed Churches of France ', the Prime Minister Cardinal Richelieu ( 1585 – 1642 ) invoked the entire powers of the state.

* 1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

The county was formed in 1585, and its boundaries reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time.

* February 9 – Judith Quiney, daughter of William Shakespeare ( b. 1585 )

* August 11 ( date of burial ) – Hamnet Shakespeare ( b. 1585 ), son of William Shakespeare

* December 4 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet ( b. 1585 )

Everything would be all right if only William would then consent to an equitable peace, including paying the English ten million guilders for their efforts, paying a yearly sum of ₤ 10, 000 for the North Sea herring rights and reinstating the clauses of the 1585 Treaty of Nonsuch about Brill, Sluys and Flushing being English securities.

* William Drummond of Hawthornden ( 1585 – 1649 ), Scottish poet.

In 1570 Duke William the Younger built the castle chapel which was consecrated in 1585.

** William Rowley, dramatist ( born c. 1585 )

* August-Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William ( born 1585 )

His statutes for the government of Emmanuel College are dated 1 October 1585 and are attested by his sons, Anthony and Humphrey, John Hammond, LL. D., William Lewyn, LL. D., Thomas Byng, LL. D., Timothy Bright, M. D., and Edward Downing.

William Rowley ( c. 1585 – February 1626 ) was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers.

* David Gunby, ‘ Rowley, William ( 1585 ?– 1626 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 June 2007

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

William Drummond ( 13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649 ), called " of Hawthornden ", was a Scottish poet.

Of Huntingdonshire parents, Cotton was educated at Westminster School, where he became interested in antiquarian studies under William Camden, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1585.

In 1585 he was employed to write the Device of the Pageant borne before Woolston Dixie, and in 1591 he devised the pageant in honour of another Lord Mayor, Sir William Webbe.

Three more editions followed at intervals to the time of the English Civil War: William Copland's ( 1557 ), Thomas East's ( 1585 ), and William Stansby's ( 1634 ), each of which manifested additional changes and errors ( including the omission of an entire leaf ).

* William Drummond of Hawthornden ( 1585 – 1649 ), Scottish poet, influenced by Spenser ; best known for illustrated essay, Cypresse Grove

It was reached by Europeans in 1585 and described in detail in 1616 by William Baffin, after whom the bay and the island are named.

Nevertheless, in Friesland and Groningen William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg ( the son of Orange's brother Jan ), and in Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel Adolf van Nieuwenaar had been appointed by the States-General in early 1585, before the treaty.

William Stewart held the commendatorship for just over a year when in 1585 David Erskine found favour once more with James VI and all of his possessions and appellations were reinstated.

It was then granted to John, Henry and William Mintern for their lives from 1585, then in 1605 to Fenton, esq.