The county was formed in 1585, and its boundaries reflect the Mac William Íochtar lordship at that time.

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

The outcome was the Treaty of Nonsuch of August 1585, in which Elizabeth promised military support to the Dutch.

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.

He was the eldest of the twelve sons of Edmund Drake ( 1518 – 1585 ), a Protestant farmer, and his wife Mary Mylwaye.

In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham — born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset.

Outer Mongolia, the former homeland of the imperial dynasty of Genghis Khan, was another lamaist theocracy from 1585, using various styles, such as tulku.

His Mansab was raised to Twelve Thousand, in 1585, at the time of his betrothal to his cousin Manbhawati Bai, daughter of Bhagwant Das of Amber.

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.

He was made Cardinal-Priest of S. Pancrazio in 1585 by Pope Gregory XIII.

Clement VIII was as vigorous as Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 90 ) in crushing banditry in the papal provinces of Umbria and the Marche and in punishing the lawlessness of the Roman nobility.

Instigated by the king of Spain and the duke of Mayenne, he excommunicated Henry IV of France on 1 March 1591, reiterating the 1585 declaration of Pope Sixtus V that as a heretic ( Protestent ) Henry of Navarre was ineligible to succeed to the throne of Catholic France and deprived of his dominions.

Pope Gregory XIII ( 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585 ), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585.

He was chosen successor of Pope Sixtus V ( 1585 – 1590 ) on 15 September 1590, but died of malaria ( 27 September 1590 ) before coronation, making his the shortest papal reign in history.

The Academy has its origins in the Accademia dei Lincei (" Academy of Lynxes ") established in Rome in 1603, under Pope Clement VIII by the learned Roman prince, Federico Cesi ( 1585 – 1630 ), who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed Galileo Galilei as its president.

He rose rapidly in the favour of Queen Elizabeth I, and was knighted in 1585.

1585 ( MDLXXXV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

An English translation was published at London 1563, 1572, and 1585.

Pope Sixtus V ( 13 December 1521 – 27 August 1590 ), born Felice Peretti di Montalto, was Pope from 1585 to 1590.

The first phase ( 1576 – 80 ) was enlarged after Peretti became pope and was able to clear buildings to open four new streets in 1585 – 6.

* Jacob Regnart ( 1540s – 1599 ) was Kapellmeister at Innsbruck from 1585 to about 1596.

* Heinrich Schuetz ( 1585 – 1673 ) was Kapellmeister to Johan Georg I, Elector of Saxony from 1619.

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

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

The replies, known as "," were written between 1579 and 1585 and were returned to the Cronista Mayor in Spain by the Council of the Indies.

The siege of Antwerp in the summer of 1585 by the Duke of Parma necessitated some reaction on the part of the English and the Dutch.

* 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

Secotan Indians ' dance in North Carolina, watercolor by John White, 1585

** Theatre of the United Kingdom – introduced by the Romans and part of the British culture since at least 1585.

Map of Ancient Thrace made by Abraham Ortelius, in 1585.

* Manchee, W. H. ( 1924 ), The Westminster City Fathers ( the Burgess Court of Westminster ) 1585 – 1901: Being some account of their powers and domestic rule of the City prior to its incorporation in 1901 ; with a foreword by Walter G. Bell and 36 illustrations which relate to documents ( some pull-outs ) and artefacts.

* The church of San Bernardino da Siena ( 1451, rebuilt in 1585 ) includes a triptych by Duccio d ' Andrea ( 15th century ) and other later paintings.

The modern County Donegal was shired by order of the English Crown in 1585.

First, that the recollection of everything done by one party or the other between March, 1585, and our accession to the crown, and during all the preceding period of troubles, remain obliterated and forgotten, as if no such things had ever happened ....

Lettice Knollys | Lettice, Countess of Leicester by George Gower c. 1585

In 1585, he accepted an offer by Philip II of Spain to decorate the new Escorial at a yearly salary of 2, 000 crowns.

Death by burning | Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland | Baden, Switzerland ( 1585 ), by Johann Jakob Wick.

" It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U. S., first applied as " Chesepiook " by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586.

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.

Maps of France, Germany and the Netherlands were added in 1585 and of the Balkans and Greece in 1588 ; further maps were published by Mercator's son Rumold Mercator in 1595 after the death of his father.

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.

In 1585 White accompanied the expedition led by Sir Ralph Lane to attempt to found the first English colony in North America.

They were guided by the Portuguese navigator Simon Fernandez, the same pilot who had led the 1585 expedition and who was given by his fellow sailors the unhappy nickname of " the swine ".