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

* The Bristow v Wilson Lawsuit 1585 National Archives ( Kew ) Item MPB 1 / 1

An Act of 1585 sought to end this confusion by providing that it should be called by the one name ' the Queen's College '; in practice the definite article is usually omitted.

Soon after the start of the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ) an English Act " against Jesuits, seminary priests and other such like disobedient persons " was passed into law.

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

The first recorded shipment of chocolate to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Veracruz to Sevilla in 1585.

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.

To the dismay of Catholic Europe, England exported tin and lead ( for cannon-casting ) and ammunitions to the Ottoman Empire, and Elizabeth seriously discussed joint military operations with Murad III during the outbreak of war with Spain in 1585, as Francis Walsingham was lobbying for a direct Ottoman military involvement against the common Spanish enemy.

In 1585 negotiations were underway for King James to come to England to discuss the release of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, and in March Oxford was to be sent to Scotland as one of the hostages for James's safety.

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.

In 1585 the poems were burned on the orders of the Inquisition, for allegedly ' obscene ' content.

To the dismay of Catholic Europe, England exported tin and lead ( for cannon-casting ) and ammunitions to the Ottoman Empire, and Elizabeth seriously discussed joint military operations with Murad III during the outbreak of war with Spain in 1585, as Francis Walsingham was lobbying for a direct Ottoman military involvement against the common Spanish enemy.

The rise of Protestantism led to major divisions within Western Christianity, which still persist, and wars — for example, the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585 – 1604 had religious as well as economic causes.

Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 1590 ) planned to turn the building into a wool factory to provide employment for Rome's prostitutes, though this proposal fell through with his premature death.

By 1585 – 6 these missionaries had set up a secret, but highly effective, underground system for the transport and support of priests arriving from the Continent.

From 1585 the title couldn't be taken away unless treachery was proven, thus most Hetmans served for life, as illustrated by the case of Jan Karol Chodkiewicz literally commanding the army from his deathbed.

Partly to provide a pretext for such hostilities against Spain, Elizabeth assisted the Dutch Revolt by signing in 1585 the Treaty of Nonsuch with the new Dutch state of the United Provinces.

After this city fell back under Spanish control in 1585 the Dutch Republic took control of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, a strip of land on the left shore, and closed the Scheldt for shipping.

Roanoke Island has been known in European-American history for its significance as the site of Sir Walter Raleigh's planting of an English settlement with his Roanoke Colony in 1585 and 1587.

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.

The county is probably named for Sir Richard Grenville, leader of the settlement on Roanoke Island, 1585.

In August 1585, Brielle was one of the four Dutch towns that became an English possession by the Treaty of Nonsuch when Queen Elizabeth I received it as security of payment for 5000 soldiers used by the Dutch in their struggle against the Spanish.

In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh's colony, in their ship the Tiger, in search of Roanoke Island collided with a sand bar in Ocracoke Inlet and were forced to land on the island for repairs.

Similar institutions were often established for other arts: Rome had the Accademia di Santa Cecilia for music from 1585 ; Paris had the Académie Royale de Musique from 1669 and the Académie d ' architecture from 1671.

1585 ) for the fiscal year 2008 national defense authorization would have renamed the Department of the Navy as the " Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

Writing in 1585, he noted some word similarities between Sanskrit and Italian ( these included devaḥ / dio " God ", sarpaḥ / serpe " serpent ", sapta / sette " seven ", aṣṭa / otto " eight ", nava / nove " nine ").

An English intervention became inevitable ; it was decided that Leicester would go to the Netherlands and " be their chief as heretofore was treated of ", as he phrased it in August 1585.

In 1585 during the Tudor re-establishment of counties under " the Composition of Connaught ", Roscommon was established with the South-west boundary now along the River Suck.

* Nicolaus VI Báthory ( died 1585 ), son of Andrew IV, a royal judge, he is described as " a man of rare honesty, powerful in possessions and influence east of the river Theiss ", he died after falling from a chariot.

Many archive documents testify that from 1585 to 1895 Brescia was the cradle of a magnificent school of string players and makers, all styled " maestro ", of all the different kinds of stringed instruments of the Renaissance: viola da gamba ( viols ), violone, lyra, lyrone, violetta and viola da brazzo.

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

The following references to Tom Black are recorded in the history of " Firbeck Hall ", an elegant country home in England dating from circa 1585, that in the mid-1930s was converted into one of the country's most exclusive sporting country clubs.

During the Dutch Revolt, trade came to a halt and even though Nijmegen became a part of the Republic of United Provinces in 1585, it remained a border town and had to endure multiple sieges.

In 1585 ( during the Chinese Ming Dynasty ), Gonzales de Mendoza wrote that the Chinese had many coaches and wagons mounted with sails, and even depicted them in artwork of silk hanfu robes and on earthenware vessels.

The exact number of young women tortured and killed by Elizabeth Báthory is unknown, though it is often speculated to be as high as 650, between the years 1585 and 1610.

Parts of the structure date back to around 1160, though much rebuilding took place in 1585 under the instruction of the Siddall family who lived there.

When their own temple came under siege in 1585, its inhabitants are estimated to have numbered 30, 000 to 50, 000, though many escaped before the siege and sought refuge in Ōta castle, home of the Saiga Ikki.

Instead, he arranged to have himself adopted into the Fujiwara Regents House, and secured a succession of high imperial court titles including, in 1585 the prestigious position of regent ( kampaku ).

A new Theobalds House just off the main road north from London to Ware, was built between 1564 and 1585 to the order of Burghley.

He first enters the historical record as a performer with Leicester's Men at Leicester House in May 1585 and continued in this service after Leicester's departure for the Low Countries to take part in the Eighty Years ' War.

Arches were also built for dynastic weddings ; when Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy married Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain in 1585, he processed under temporary triumphal arches that asserted the antiquity of the House of Savoy and associated his dynasty, through the art and architecture of the arches, with the imperial Roman past.

* Toby Chauncey ( d. 1579 ), William Chauncey ( d. 1585 ) and others-owners of the Manor House at Edgcote, Northamptonshire, England

Sir Thomas Lucy ( 24 April 1532 – 7 July 1600 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585.

Richmond was one of the seats in the Unreformed House of Commons, first being represented in 1585.

In 1606 the estate was purchased by the nephew of Sir Francis Englefield, following the confiscation of Englefield House and its estates in 1585.