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

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.

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

Seventh-day Sabbatarianism was advocated in England by John Traske ( 1586 – 1636 ) and Thomas Brabourne, whose ideas gave rise to the Seventh-day Baptists.

* probable – John Ford, dramatist ( b. 1586 )

Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.

On 19 November 1586 he was detained by the gaoler and brought before Archbishop John Whitgift.

By 1541 William Bromley had the licence for ferries at Seacombe, and in 1586, Queen Elizabeth granted John Poole of Sutton the rights at Tranmere.

In August 1586, Stanley joined Leicester and, with John Norris, took Doesborg in a violent assault.

* John Jacob of Khun-Bellasy 1560 – 1586

* John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol ( 1586 – 1653 )

John Hooker's map of Exeter of around 1586 shows the city's coat of arms without the motto, suggesting that the city's use of the motto is no older than this.

* John Adams ( martyr ) ( c. 1540 – 1586 ), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England

The earldom was attainted between 1581 and 1586, although the nephew-in-law of the 4th earl ( also grandson of the 3rd earl ), John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell ( 1552 – 1593 ) was created Earl of Morton in 1581, and continued to use the title until his death.

This continued into the time of the 7th Earl of Morton ( 1582 – 1648 ), when John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell ( c. 1586 – 1613 ), also claimed the earldom.

Now newlie augmented and continued ( with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie ) to the yeare 1586 by John Hooker, alias Vowell Gent, and others.

* John Mason, English explorer ( born 1586 )

* John Warwick Montgomery, Cross and Crucible: Johann Valentin Andreae ( 1586 – 1654 ).

Captain John Mason ( 1586 – 1635 ) was a sailor and colonizer born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, and educated at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

His grandson Sir John Spencer ( d. 1586 ) was a Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire.

* Bruce, John ( 1844 ): Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, during his Government of the Low Countries, in the Years 1585 and 1586 Camden Society

* Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet ( 1586 – 1655 ), English politician

* 1552 – 1586 John Günther I

* 1586 – 1631 Günther XLII, with Anton Henry, John Günther II and Christian Günther I

In 1586, it was the scene of an Inuit attack on the expedition of John Davis which killed two and wounded others.