Sir John Spilman set up the first paper mill in England at Dartford in 1588 on a site near Powder Mill Lane, and soon some 600 employees worked there, providing an invaluable source of local employment.

Nagamasu converted to Christianity in 1588 and took the baptismal name of John.

By 1588, the Levant Company had been converted to a regulated monopoly on an established trade, from its initial character as a joint-stock company.

It was converted into a fortress from 1588 to 1605 and is one of the best-preserved Renaissance fortresses in Germany.

* Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben ( 1551 – 1637 ), Countess of Mansfeld, converted Gebhard Seneschal of Waldburg to the Protestant faith, leading to the Cologne War ( 1583 – 1588 )

The Powder Mills were in operation from c1730, possibly on the site of Spilman's paper mill of 1588.

In 1588, one of the mills was described as a " gunpowder mill ".

From the 16th century onwards, evidence of cranks and connecting rods integrated into machine design becomes abundant in the technological treatises of the period: Agostino Ramelli's The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of 1588 alone depicts eighteen examples, a number that rises in the Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Böckler to 45 different machines, one third of the total.

* Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, from the Prosperous Voyage of M. Thomas Candish esquire into the South Sea, and so around about the circumference of the whole earth, begun in the yere 1586, and finished 1588, 1598 – 1600, Volume XI.

15-18, 1588, at which the defense of the accepted system of doctrine was at the start put into Beza's hands.

The first, Psalms, Sonnets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie ( 1588 ) consists mainly of adapted consort songs, which Byrd, probably guided by commercial instincts, had turned into vocal part-songs by adding words to the accompanying instrumental parts and labelling the original solo voice as ‘ the first singing part ’.

On December 23, 1588, at the Château de Blois, Henry of Guise and his brother, the Cardinal de Guise, were lured into a trap by the King's guards.

The first two appeared at Salamanca in 1588, the last at Seville in 1590, and was soon after its publication translated into various languages.

King Henry III was forced to flee Paris in 1588, and the gardens fell into disrepair.

In a commission to inquire into manors unjustly alienated from the crown in the west country he did not altogether please the queen, but nevertheless received a grant of some forfeited lands in Somerset in 1588.

Abū al-Qāsim's influence continued for at least five centuries, extending into the Renaissance, evidenced by al-Tasrifs frequent reference by French surgeon Jacques Delechamps ( 1513 – 1588 ).

The colonies Columbus established and conquests in the Americas in the decades to come would lead to an influx of wealth into Spain, filling the coffers of the new state that would prove to be the hegemony of Europe only until 1588, when the Spanish Armada disaster against England and Ireland led to the major decline of Spain as an imperial power in Europe.

These include actor Richard Ian Cox, William Morgan who translated the Bible into Welsh in 1588, the first archbishop of Wales Alfred George Edwards, comedian Greg Davies, singer Lisa Scott-Lee, composer William Mathias, former Wales football captain Ian Rush, the explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley, Dic Aberdaron, who taught himself Latin at the age of 11, Felicia Hemans ( 1793 – 1835 ), poet (" The boy stood on the burning deck "), and LET golfer Becky Brewerton.

Before the Outlawries Bill became a symbolic custom, two Outlawry Acts were passed into English law: the Outlawry Act 1331 and the Avoidance of Secret Outlawries Act 1588, neither of which is still in force.

He is most famous for publishing the Musica transalpina ( 1588 ), a collection of Italian madrigals with their words translated into English.

Despite the protection of the nobles and the court, the fanatical outburst of 1588 associated with the War of the Three Henrys led to his being thrown into the Bastille.

Indeed, after publishing Mirtilla ( 1588 ) she began corresponding with contemporary intellectuals, attending their forums, and-an uncommon achievement for a woman in her era-in 1601 she was integrated into the literary society of the Accademia degli Intenti of Pavia, for which she adopted the nickname of Accesa.

Contrapuntal treatises of the Renaissance, such as Johannes Tinctoris's Liber de arte contrapuncti ( 1477 ) and Gioseffe Zarlino's Le istituzioni harmonice ( 1588 ), described resolution at cadences through a major sixth into the octave or the inversion, a minor third closing to a unison, which, unless the other voice already descends by a semitone, necessitates the rising voice to add a sharp ( see dyadic counterpoint ) ( Tinctoris 1961, ; Zarlino 1968, 144 – 45 ).

Soon enough, however, the Pskovian hero was found guilty of conspiring against Boris Godunov and exiled into Belozersk, where he died on November 16, 1588.

Bible translations into Welsh have existed since at least the 15th century, but the most widely used translation of the Bible into Welsh for several centuries was the 1588 translation by William Morgan, as revised in 1620.

The Statutes consist of three legal codes ( 1529, 1566, and 1588 ) all written in Old Chancery Slavonic language, translated into Latin and later Polish.

Early in 1588 he visited Malacca, another of Portugal's great fortresses and the gateway to the Far East, but found the security too strict to get passage into the China Sea.

Rustam Khan believed that the Hindus were not reacting and fell into the Vijayanagaran ambush in mid 1588.

In 1588 the steward ( Drost ) Dietrich Harderwyk Armgard married a daughter of Hayo Unken IV, and thus came into possession of the castle, which now bears his family name.

Its binding is Turkish, and appears to be original ; but the paper has an Italian watermark, which has been dated between 1588 and 1620.

Richard Boyle arrived in Dublin from England in 1588 during the Tudor plantations of Ireland and obtained an appointment as a deputy escheator.

He was born in Dumfriesshire and, after a wayward youth, attended the University of Edinburgh and obtained his MA in 1588.

He entered the army at an early age and had obtained the rank of captain at the siege of Sluys in 1587, was a prisoner at Lisle in 1588, wounded at the siege of Paris in 1589 and knighted at the siege of Rouen in 1591.

After Leicester's death in 1588, the Queen transferred the late Earl's royal monopoly on sweet wines to Essex, providing him with revenue from taxes.

Allison Peirson was burned as a witch in 1588 for conversing with the ' Queen of Elfame ' and for prescribing magic charms and potions.

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

The period after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted the fifteen years until the end of her reign.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

In 1588 he became MP for Liverpool and then for Middlesex in 1593.

Johann Heinrich Alsted ( March 1588 – November 9, 1638 ) was a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, pedagogy and encyclopedias, theology and millennarianism.

Megiser, who visited Malta from 1588 to 1589, proposed a Punic heritage for the language, a suggestion rebuffed in 1660 by Burchardus Niderstedt in his book Malta vetus et nova.

* 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

* 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30, 000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

Also in 1591, Gregory XIV modified the Apostolic Constitution Effraenatam of Pope Sixtus V ( 1588 ) so that the penalty for abortion did not apply until the foetus became animated.

Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 while waiting for the tide to change before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada.

The predecessor of the congregation was the Sacred Congregation for Rites, founded by Pope Sixtus V on 22 January 1588 in the Bull Immensa Aeterni Dei.

Soon after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean.

In 1588, however, the pope issued the papal bull, " Effraenatam " ( Without Restraint ), which declared that the canonical penalty of excommunication would be levied for any form of contraception and for abortions at any stage in fetal development.

He participated in the successful English defence against the Spanish Armada in 1588, though he was also partly responsible for the failure of the English Armada against Spain in 1589.

Sophie's constitutional position became difficult after Frederick's death in 1588, when she found herself in a power struggle with the Rigsraad for control of King Christian.

In early 1588 White was able to scrape together a pair of small pinnaces, the Brave and The Roe, which were unsuitable for military service and so could be spared for the expedition to Roanoke.

He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada in 1588.

He managed to hire two small vessels considered unnecessary for England's defense and sailed for Roanoke in the spring of 1588.