* 1586 – William Hutchinson, English-American judge ( d. 1642 )

* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )

He travelled to Venice ( 1582, 1587 – 1589 ) and Parma ( 1586 – 1587 ).

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

# Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia ( 31 December 1586 – 22 February 1659 ).

* 1586 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer ( d. 1670 )

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.

* 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

* 1586 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer ( d. 1630 )

* 1586 – Thomas Hooker, English-American colonist, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( d. 1647 )

* 1586 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman and art collector ( d. 1646 )

* 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut ( b. 1586 )

* 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.

* 1586 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an ' evangelical ' league of defence, called the ' Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae ', against the Catholic League.

); France's, Jean Bodin, Colbert and other physiocrats precursors ; and the Spanish School of Salamanca writers Francisco de Vitoria ( 1480 or 1483 – 1546 ), Domingo de Soto ( 1494 – 1560 ), Martin de Azpilcueta ( 1491 – 1586 ), and Luis de Molina ( 1535 – 1600 ).

* 1522 – Martin Chemnitz, German theologian ( d. 1586 )

* 1630 – Johann Schein, German composer ( b. 1586 )

* 1561 – Anthony Babington, Leader of the Babington Plot ( d. 1586 )

* 1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter ( d. 1586 )

* 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.

Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

Having been fortified the town withstood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch against Spain, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.

The Battle of Leckmelm, in 1586, the Clan MacLeod and Clan Mackay are victorious in defeating the Clan Gunn.

" Roger Williams is worth his weight in gold, for he is noe more valiant than he is wise " and he was duly knighted after the Battle of Zutphen in 1586 by Leicester.

Sidney died of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.

He took part in the expedition to Kyūshū ( in 1586 ) and Odawara ( in 1590 ) and the Battle of Bunroku ( in 1592 ).

Tomomasa under Hideyoshi took part in the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute and the expedition to Kyūshū ( in 1586 ).

In 1586 at the Battle of Allt Camhna the Clan Gunn was victorious but they were defeated shortly afterwards by a massive force at the Battle of Leckmelm.

Along side his brother Captain Thomas Maria Wingfield, for at least four years, Edward Maria fought as a foot company commander ( i. e. commander of 100 pike-wielding soldiers ) in the Low Countries for the Dutch Republic against Spanish invaders, including in 1586 at the Battle of Zutphen, thereby gaining experience in the defense of forts and in skirmishing.

* Battle of Zutphen, 1586 ) 1826-Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey )

In September 1586 there was a skirmish at Zutphen, in which Philip Sidney was wounded.

The 1586 Siege of Zutphen has also been suggested as the occasion of Roger Dudley's death.

It is most probable that he died at the Siege of Zutphen in 1586, having followed a relative, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was a principal figure in that battle.

He served with the English forces in the Netherlands in 1585 and 1586, being present at the skirmish of Zutphen.

In 1586, Sir Francis Drake captured the city of Santo Domingo, collecting a ransom for its return to Spanish rule.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

** Luis de Morales, Spanish religious painter ( d. 1586 )

He conducted a successful raid on Spanish forces near Axel in July, 1586.

Alexander Farnese (, ) ( 27 August 1545 – 3 December 1592 ) was Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1586 to 1592, and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1578 to 1592.

* January 29-Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian ( born 1586 )

In 1571, the first Spanish troops under Captain Juan de Salcedo arrived in the upland village of Sampaloc, which became a parish in 1586, and then a municipality in 1647, and was renamed " San Pablo de Los Montes " in honor of Saint Paul the First Hermit.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle ( 20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586 ), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe ; " the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century ".

1586 – 1626 ) was an independent merchant in foreign trade, an English commissioner in the Spanish Netherlands, a government advisor on trade matters, assay master of the mint, and commissioner of mint affairs.

Gravelines was also the setting for Sir Philip Sidney's failure to deliver the town from Spanish occupation in July 1586, which is described in the anonymous A Discourse of the enterprise of Gravelines.

Between 1437 and 1586 the first grammars of Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German and English were written, though not always immediately published.

Digges served as a Member of Parliament for Wallingford and also had a military career as a Muster-Master General to the English forces from 1586 to 1594 during the war with the Spanish Netherlands.

* Henry O ' Neill ( c. 1586 – 1610 ) Earl Hugh's son by Joan O ' Donnell, his second wife ; Colonel of the Irish regiment in the Spanish service in Flanders ; Knight of Santiago.

Luis de Morales ( 1512-9 May 1586 ) was a Spanish painter born in Badajoz, Extremadura.

In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I of England, supported the Protestant cause in the Netherlands and France, and Sir Francis Drake launched attacks against Spanish merchants in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, along with a particularly aggressive attack on the port of Cadiz.

But there seems to have been a fundamental change in the culture of the court towards the end of 1585, when the king took personal control of the government, and in the summer of 1586 Montgomerie joined an enlarged Scottish contingent fighting for the Dutch Republic against the Spanish.

* Luis de Morales ( c. 1510 – 1586 ), Spanish painter

He had completed 43 of the 150 Psalms at the time of his death during a military campaign against the Spanish in the Netherlands in 1586.

Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza ( 1586 – 22 September 1644 ) was a Spanish dramatist.

It was raised to a Barony in 1569, was annexed by Maxelrain in 1586, annexed by Leuchtenberg in 1618, and created a Principality for John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough in 1704 for his service in the War of the Spanish Succession.