In 1580 John Stow attributed Piers Plowman to " John Malvern ," a name that surfaces again with John Pitts in 1619 and Anthony à Wood in 1674.

* 1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

* Concordia ( official title: Book of Concord ), compilation of Lutheran doctrinal statements published in 1580

Leaving his deputy Sir Samuel Argall ( circa 1580 – circa 1626 ) in charge, Lord De La Warr returned to England and published a book about Virginia, The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De-La-Warre, of the Colonie, Planted in Virginia, in 1611.

A brief tract on comic metres ( De comicis dimensionibus ) and a work De causis linguae Latinae ( Lyon, 1540 ; Geneva, 1580 ), which was the earliest Latin grammar founded on scientific principles and following a scientific method, were his only other purely literary works published in his lifetime.

* Sir Philip Sidney-Defense of Poesy ( written between 1580 – 1583 ) is published for the first time.

In 1580, Yun Dusu ( 尹斗壽 ) collated all available material on him and published his research as the Gijaji ( 箕子志 ; " Record of Gija ").

Thomas Tusser ( 1524 – 3 May 1580 ) was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557.

Bodin's major work on sorcery and the witchcraft persecutions was first issued in 1580, ten editions being published by 1604.

When the penitent Stephen Gosson had ( in 1579 ) published his Schoole of Abuse, Lodge responded with Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays ( 1579 or 1580 ), which shows a certain restraint, though both forceful and learned.

For instance, in his translation of Torquato Tasso's " Aminta ", published in 1580, Zlatarić's purist tendencies led to mistakes: the hero's name Aminta becomes in Croatian Ljubmir ( Lover ) because Zlatarić wrongly assumed that the name " Aminta " stems from Latin amare (" to love "), while in fact it is from Ancient Greek ( amýnō, " to defend ").

1580 – 1650 ) of Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany published Holzsparkunst ( The Art of Saving Wood ), featuring a stove in which the fumes from a fire were forced to snake through five chambers, one above the other, before entering the chimney.

John Lyly published the works Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit ( 1578 ) and Euphues and his England ( 1580 ).

The Book of Concord was published in German on June 25, 1580 in Dresden, the fiftieth anniversary of the presentation of the Augsburg Confession to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg.

His ideas of springs and underground waters were published in his Discours admirables, de la nature des eaux et fontaines, tant naturelles qu ' artificielles, des metaux, des sels et salines, des pierres, des terres, du feu et des maux ( Paris, 1580 ).

He published two books of Madrigali a 5 voices ( 1566 and 1604 ), one of Madrigali a 4 ( 1579 ) and a 3 ( 1580 ).

It and related documents was published in The Book of Concord in 1580.

The official rules of calcio were published for the first time in 1580 by Giovanni de ' Bardi, a Florentine count.

A more complete edition was published at Basel in 1580 by Nicholas Cisner.

He published his proposal Booke at large for the Amendment of English Orthographie in 1580.

Essays is the title given to a collection of 107 essays written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580.

* A: passages written 1571-1580, published 1580

Christoffel Plantijn had been a friend of Goropius's and the Antwerp-based printing house known as the Plantin Press, which first published Goropius's works in 1569, printed the linguist-physician ’ s posthumous collected work in 1580 as a massive volume of more than a thousand pages.

According to the " Galaxidi Chronicle ", compiled by a monk named Efthymios in 1702, a huge earthquake in 1580 destroyed several towns in Phocis like Salona ( Amfissa ), Galaxidi, Lidoriki and Mynia.

* 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.

of Leonardo Fioravanti, Bolognese, upon Surgery, John Lyly's Euphues and his England, and Anthony Munday's Zelauto in 1580.

In 1580 he was persuaded by English Jesuits to moderate or suspend the Bull Regnans in Excelsis ( 1570 ) which had excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England.

* John Webster of England ( 1580 – 1634 ), playwright

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

From there it spread to England, where Henry VIII owned, in an inventory of 1549, an agate cup with a " fote and Couer of siluer and guilt enbossed with Rebeske worke ", and William Herne or Heron, Serjeant Painter from 1572 to 1580, was paid for painting Elizabeth I's barge with " rebeske work ".

The stripping of the altars: Traditional religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580.

Nevertheless, it has been estimated that only in 1580 did overall levels of charitable giving in England return to those before the dissolution.

In January 1580 he wrote to Mary offering her his services, and in June made a similar offer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, in which he criticised the influence of the Jesuits, and proposed to make a journey to Dieppe to attend Protestant services.

Sir John Smith ( c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631 ) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author.

In 1580, he enlisted troops in England and led them to the rebellious province of Munster ; but the new lord deputy, Lord Grey, quickly recalled him to the Pale to help put down the rebellion that had broken out in the vicinity of Dublin.

At the request of the Jesuits and to relieve the pressures on Catholics in England, Pope Gregory XIII issued a clarification or suspension in 1580, explaining that Catholics should obey the queen outwardly in all civil matters, until such time as a suitable opportunity presented itself for her overthrow.

Writings by John Dee and Thomas Digges in England in 1570 and 1571, respectively ascribe the use of both reflecting and refracting telescopes to Thomas ' father Leonard Digges, and it is independently confirmed by a report by William Bourne in approximately 1580.

In 1580 Elizabeth I of England banned new building in a 3-mile wide belt around the City of London in an attempt to stop the spread of plague.

Mornay was gradually recognized as Henry's right-hand man, representing him in England from 1577 to 1578 and again in 1580, and in the Low Countries 1581-1582.

* On 26 September 1580, Sir Francis Drake returned to England, becoming the second person to circumnavigate the globe.

* Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c. 1400 to c. 1580, Yale University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-300-06076-9

Under Allen's orders, the English College at Rome was placed under the control of the Society of Jesus, for a plan to send Jesuit missions and missionaries to England by 1580.

John Lyly ( Lilly or Lylie ; c. 1553 or 1554 – November 1606 ) was an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit ( 1578 ) and Euphues and His England ( 1580 ).

Euphues and his England appeared in 1580, and, like the first part of the book, won immediate popularity.

He was born at Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire, England to Henry Dunster ( 1580 – 1646 ) and Henry's first wife, who is not named in any records.