In 1582, king John III of Sweden added Grand Duke of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish kings, however without any factual consequences, Finland already being a part of the Swedish realm.

After the Raid of Ruthven in 1582 Angus returned to Scotland and was reconciled to King James, but soon afterwards the king shook off the control of the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, and Angus was again banished from Court.

During 1582 Gowrie and his associates seized the young king and held him prisoner for 10 months.

He was the chief conspirator in the “ Raid of Ruthven ” that in 1582 captured the boy king James VI ( later James I of England ), after which Ruthven was pardoned but later beheaded for treason.

In 1582 he devised the plot to seize James VI of Scotland, known as the Raid of Ruthven, when the king visited his home at Huntingtower Castle.

In July 1582 the discontented lords made a bond to support each other in their enterprise to displace Catholic influences around the young king.

* John Williams of England ( 1582 – 1650 ), Lord Chancellor and future Archbishop of York

* August 15 – John Barclay, Scottish writer ( b. 1582 )

John Bainbridge ( 1582 – 3 November 1643 ) was an English astronomer.

In 1582 King John III of Sweden added Grand Prince of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish kings, although without any factual consequences since Finland was already a part of the Swedish realm.

On 13 August 1582 Coke married Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston, a Counsellor from Norwich.

* John Barclay ( poet ) ( 1582 – 1621 ), Scottish satirist and Latin poet

John and Carl purchased 1582 acres ( 6. 4 km² ) of land on October 28, 1831, in Butler County, Pennsylvania with the intent to establish a German settlement, called Saxonburg.

* John Williams ( archbishop of York ) ( 1582 – 1650 ), British clergyman and political advisor to King James I

Kelley approached John Dee in 1582.

But though the Jesuit Antonio Possevino was sent to Stockholm to complete John ’ s conversion, John would only consent to embrace Catholicism under certain conditions which were never fulfilled, and the only result of all these subterraneous negotiations was to incense the Protestants still more against the new liturgy, the use of which by every congregation in the realm without exception was, nevertheless, decreed by the Riksdag of 1582.

** John Bainbridge, English astronomer ( born 1582 )

* 1571 – 1582 John Lonyson

In or around 1853, G. J. R. Gordon, Queen Victoria's envoy and minister in Stockholm, gave a rare copy of the 1582 edition of Piae Cantiones to English hymnwriter John Mason Neale, Warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead, Sussex and to the Reverend Thomas Helmore ( Vice-Principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea ).

Crossing to England towards the end of 1582, he attended the lectures of John Rainolds ( 1549 – 1607 ) at Oxford, and those of William Whitaker at Cambridge.

However by 1582 the fields were being farmed by Silvester and John Baldwin and the woodlands by another John Gage.

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.

It was created in 1582 for Oliver St John.

* Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso ( d. 1582 )

Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet ( 1583 – 19 April 1627 or c. 1582 – c. April 1627 ) was an English poet.

Rennenberg had died in the Summer of 1581, but was ably replaced by Francisco Verdugo, who pushed south to Lochem in 1582 after first having seen off the English mercenaries of Sir John Norris ( of Rijmenam fame ) opposing him in Friesland.

* John Barclay ( 1582 — 1621 ), Scottish satirist and Latin poet

Meanwhile Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, whom Henry III had made governor of Brittany in 1582, was endeavouring to make himself independent in that province.

In this work, Guazzo was greatly influenced by Duke Charles III of Lorraine ’ s leading lawyer and demonologist, Nicholas Remy ( Remy produced one of the most important early works on demonology and witchcraft in 1595, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, and claimed to have sentenced to death over 900 people during witch trials between 1582 – 1592 ).

Diane became of favourite of Henry III, King of France, who made her Duchess of Angoulême in appanage ( during her lifetime only ) during 1582.

In the hierarchical order established by Henry III in 1582, the Great Officers of the Crown of France were:

* Giorgi III Dadiani ( 1546 – 1573, 1574 – 1582 )

In 1582 he was made governor of Brittany by Henry III of France, who had married his half-sister.

Six months after his humiliating peace with the Polish monarch, Ivan IV was glad to conclude a truce with Sweden also on a uti possidetis basis at Plussa, on August 5, 1582.

In 1853 the British ambassador to Sweden, G. J. R. Gordon, returned to England with a copy of the 1582 edition, which he presented to John Mason Neale, well known for his interest in early music.

* 1582 / 83 Russian peace with Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

In 1582, the war with Russia was ended and Sweden got to keep the conquests made in Karelia and Ingria, but had to withdraw from Livonia.

A tower was added between 1528 and 1582, achieving its modern appearance in 1618.

The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523 under the supervision of the architect Thomas Krebs, and in 1582 Hans Holl added the church to the settlement: St. Mark's.

* Jakub Zadzik of Poland ( 1582 – 1642 ), Grand Chancellor of Poland

During the years between 1579 and 1582, representatives from Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Paşa travelled several times from Istanbul to Antwerp.

Zhang Juzheng () ( 1525 – 1582 ), courtesy name: Shuda ( 叔大 ), pseudonym: Taiyue ( 太岳 ), was a powerful Grand Secretary in the Ming Dynasty under the Longqing and Wanli emperors.