The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.

Mary may not have been told of every Catholic plot to put her on the English throne, but from the Ridolfi Plot of 1571 ( which caused Mary's suitor, the Duke of Norfolk, to lose his head ) to the Babington Plot of 1586, Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the royal council keenly assembled a case against her.

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.

* November 30 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier and poet ( d. 1586 )

The damage was done, however: " My credit hath been cracked ever since her Majesty sent Sir Thomas Heneage hither ", Leicester recapitulated in October 1586.

The chief conspirator was Sir Anthony Babington ( 1561 – 1586 ), a young Catholic nobleman.

* The English poet Sir Philip Sidney died in 1586 in Arnhem.

Having been fortified the town withstood several sieges, specially during the wars of freedom waged by the Dutch against Spain, the most celebrated fight under its walls being the Battle of Zutphen in September 1586 when Sir Philip Sidney was mortally wounded.

In 1586, Sir Francis Drake, also of England, and nephew of Hawkins, came with a strong fleet and quickly took the city.

White was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sir Richard Grenville's artist-illustrator on his first voyage to the New World ; he served as mapmaker and artist to the expedition, which encountered considerable difficulties and returned to England in 1586.

After Lane's colonists returned to England in 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh, who held the land patent for the proposed English colony of Virginia, tasked White with the job of organizing a new colony in the Chesapeake Bay area, one which would be self-sustaining and which would include women and children.

* Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Bt, ( Lord Mayor of London, endowed an Arabic chair at Cambridge University ) ( 1586 – 1667 / 68 )

* Sir Philip Sidney ( 1554 – 1586 ), poet and soldier

Sir Philip Sidney ( 30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586 ) was an English poet, courtier and soldier, and is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan Age.

The funeral of Sir Philip Sidney, 1586

Writing After Sidney: the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney 1586 – 1640.

Sir Philip Sidney 1554 – 1586, Poets ' Graves.

The 2nd Earl of Pembroke succeeded Sir Henry Sidney nine years later as President of the Council of the Marches, in 1586.

* Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick jointly with Sir Philip Sidney 1585 – 1586

* Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney ( c. 1530 to 1535 – 1586 ), English lady-in-waiting at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, mother of Sir Philip Sydney

In 1560 Sir Thomas Chaloner granted bases of land for digging coal, and in 1586 he granted St Bees School liberty " to take 40 loads of coal at his coal pits in the parish of St Bees for the use of the School ".

Sir William St Leger ( 1586 – 2 July 1642 ) was an Anglo-Irish landowner, official and soldier active in Ireland.

Gravelines was also the setting for Sir Philip Sidney's failure to deliver the town from Spanish occupation in July 1586, which is described in the anonymous A Discourse of the enterprise of Gravelines.

* 1586 – Francis Drake's forces raid St. Augustine in Spanish Florida.

In 1586, Francis Drake captured the city, which he held for ransom.

The Cayman Islands were renamed by Sir Francis Drake, who came upon the islands during a voyage in 1586.

In 1545, Henry VIII granted the manor of Tilehurst to Francis Englefield, who held it until his attainder ( and forfeiture of the manor ) in 1586.

In June 1586 Sir Francis Drake arrived at Roanoke and offered Lane and his men a return voyage to England that Lane readily accepted for fear of a weakened supply of food and increased tensions with local leaders.

Another sister is implied in a secret intelligence note to Francis Walsingham, dated Sept 18 1586, in which the writer has had conference with " Jennings of Portsmouth " who reports that Mr Bruyn of Dorset and Mr Kyrkham of Devon are persons to be suspect as they had married Tychbourn's sisters.

In 1586, Davison was appointed assistant to Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State Francis Walsingham, but in 1587 he lost the favour of Elizabeth, after the beheading of her cousin ( once removed ) Mary, Queen of Scots.

In 1586, Queen Elizabeth I of England, supported the Protestant cause in the Netherlands and France, and Sir Francis Drake launched attacks against Spanish merchants in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean, along with a particularly aggressive attack on the port of Cadiz.

The need for fortifications was recognized after it was attacked by Sir Francis Drake and his fleet of 20 ships in 1586.

* Sir Francis Knollys 12 September 1586 – 19 July 1596 and

* Sir Francis Knollys 12 September 1586 – 19 July 1596 and

Its Mediterranean habitat, elegant details of leaf and habit and dramatic show of fruit with flowers made Arbutus unedo notable in Classical Antiquity, when Pliny thought it should not be planted where bees are kept, for the bitterness it imparts to honey, but the first signs of its importation into northern European gardens was to England from 16th-century Ireland rather than from the Mediterranean basin ; in 1586 a correspondent in Ireland sent plants to the Elizabethan courtiers Lord Leicester and Sir Francis Walsingham.

Because the royal mining company failed to resupply colonists who were also becoming increasingly fearful of conflicts with the Indians, they accepted an offer from Sir Francis Drake in June 1586 to sail them to England.

In 1586 Grenville returned to Roanoke to find that the surviving colonists had shipped out with Drake.

The Bundela Rajputs captured the city in 1586, and it was held by Ram Sab, a son of Raja Madhukar of Orchha.

Under Mayor Heinrich Stroband ( 1586 – 1609 ), the city became centralized.

Trubar died on 28 June 1586 in Derendingen, Germany ( now part of the city of Tübingen ), where he is also buried.

Piacenza was the capital city of the duchy until Ottavio Farnese ( 1547 – 1586 ) moved it to Parma.

In 1586, more than two-thirds of the city was destroyed by fire, and several wars during the reign of King Louis XIV of France resulted in worsening finances for Neuss.

Founded in 1586 to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east of the Ural Mountains.

On July 29, 1586, Tsar Feodor I ordered two regional commanders, Vasily Borisov-Sukin and Ivan Myasnoy, to construct a fortress on the site of the former Tatar town of Chingi-Tura (' city of Chingis '), also known as Tyumen, from the Turkish and Mongol word for ' ten thousand.

* 1586 – Meeting of Sant Dadu and Akbar, Akbar recaptured the city from Muzaffarshah.

In 1586, Nanda Bayin himself led the Burmese armies to Ayutthaya and laid siege on the city for 13 months and failed.

In 1582-83, again in 1586, and again in 1587, the city was plundered by partisan armies during the Cologne War, a feud over religious parity in Electorate of Cologne and electoral influence in the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1586 bishop Jan Dymitr Solikowski, royal diplomat and a bishop of Lwów, as the city was called back then, was accepted on an audience by the Pope Sixtus V. In the effect, the city was granted with a privilege of adding the papal coat of arms to its own.

The ruined city was retaken by the Tatars in 1584 only to be lost forever in 1586.

On the initiative of Mikołaj " the Orphan " Radziwiłł the city was granted Magdeburg rights in 1586.

By 1586 the village had obtained the title of city.

In the middle-age city part, most of the timber framed houses stem from the period after the major fire in 1586.

The city is named after St. Rose of Lima, born on 1586 in Lima ( Peru ).

What is now the city of Samara was founded in 1586 as a tsarist defense outpost.

In 1586 Sixtus V added to the 13 rioni another one: Borgo, which before had been administered separately from the city.

On December 9, 1586 ( the year when Domenico Fontana erected in Saint Peter's Square the obelisk once standing in the Circus of Nero ), Pope Sixtus V declared Borgo the fourteenth Rione of the city.