Events January–June January–March – Archangelsk is founded as New Kholmogory in northern Russia, by Ivan the Terrible. January 11 – Sir Walter Mildmay is given a royal licence to found Emmanuel College, Cambridge in England. March 18 (N.S. March 28) – Ivan the Terrible, ruler of Russia since 1533, dies; he is succeeded as Tsar by his son, Feodor. May 17 – The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute. June 1 – With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France. June 4 – Walter Raleigh sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (modern-day North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island. June 11 – Walk (modern-day Valka and Valga, towns in Latvia and Estonia respectively), receives city rights from Polish king Stefan Bathory. July–December July – The Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585) by the Spanish begins. July 5 – The Maronite College is established in Rome, Papal States. July 10 – William the Silent, Prince of Orange, is assassinated in Delft, the first ruler to be killed by a handgun. September 17 – Ghent falls into the hands of Alexander Farnese, governor of the Spanish Netherlands. December – The Treaty of Joinville is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and Spain. Date unknown Ratu Hijau becomes queen regnant of the Malay Patani Kingdom. Belgian cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius features Ming dynasty-era Chinese carriages with masts and sails, in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; concurrent and later Western writers also take note of this peculiar Chinese invention. This year, according to Italian heretic Jacopo Brocardo, is regarded as an apocalyptic inauguration of a major new cycle. Births January 1 – Charles de Lorme, French physician (d. 1678) January 7 – Karan Singh II, Maharana of Mewar (d. 1628) January 29 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647) February 9 – Francesco Maria Richini, Italian architect (d. 1658) February 12 – Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath (d. 1648) February 18 – Philippe de Carteret II, governor of Jersey (d. 1643) February 19 – Angelo Nardi, Italian painter (d. 1664) February 26 – Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666) March 15 – Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1663) March 22 – Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Flemish Jesuit mathematician (d. 1667) March 26 –