1581 - What happened in 1581 ?


January 1581


Friday 16:

English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.




April 1581


Saturday 04:

Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.




July 1581


Sunday 26:

Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Oath of Abjuration). The declaration of independence of the northern Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.



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