The era of

1580s

3 recaps across 2 years of the decade. Reconstructed from contemporary coverage, archives, and the public record.

Pope Gregory XIII's calendar reform corrected the Julian calendar's drift, establishing the timekeeping system used worldwide today.

England's naval defeat of Philip II's invincible Armada established Protestant England as a European power and naval supremacy doctrine.

Philip II's Catholic crusade sank in the Atlantic.

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