Year by year · 16th century

1582

1582 in world history: 11 events, 4 births, 9 deaths, 2 states founded and 1 that came to an end. 988 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 15 January

    Truce of Jam Zapolski ends Russia's war with Poland-Lithuania

    Ivan the Terrible gave up his conquests in Livonia to Stefan Batory's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The truce ended Russia's long attempt to win a foothold on the Baltic.

    Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthLithuaniaLivonia

  2. 24 February

    Pope Gregory XIII issues the bull reforming the calendar

    The bull Inter gravissimas introduced the Gregorian calendar, dropping ten days that October to realign the calendar with the equinox. It is now the world's standard civil calendar.

  3. 4 October

    Catholic Europe switches to the Gregorian calendar

    In Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland, Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed directly by Friday 15 October. Pope Gregory XIII's reform dropped ten days to realign the calendar with the solar year.

  4. 15 October

    The Gregorian calendar takes effect

    Friday 15 October 1582 was the first day of the Gregorian calendar in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland, following directly on Thursday 4 October. Protestant and Orthodox countries adopted it only over the following centuries.

  5. Battle

    Battle of Tenmokuzan

    The Battle of Tenmokuzan was fought in April 1582 in Kai Province, Japan, when the forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu invaded the Takeda lands.

  6. Battle

    Battle of Yamazaki

    The Battle of Yamazaki was fought in July 1582 near Yamazaki, between Kyoto and Osaka, where Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated Akechi Mitsuhide, who had killed Oda Nobunaga at the Honnoji temple less than two weeks earlier.

  7. Treaty · Peace

    Truce of Yam-Zapolsky

    The Truce of Yam-Zapolsky was signed on 15 January 1582 between Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending their part in the Livonian War after Stephen Báthory's campaigns and siege of Pskov.

  8. Treaty

    Tellumpoccoe

    The Tellumpoccoe ('three powers') was an alliance of the Bugis kingdoms of Bone, Wajo and Soppeng in South Sulawesi, sworn in 1582 at Timurung to resist the expansion of the Makassar kingdom of Gowa.

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In the profiles

  • PersianThe Mughal emperor Akbar makes Persian the language of all government records in his empire

Wars and longer events

Born in 1582 4

Died in 1582 9

States founded 2

States that came to an end 1

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