WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1585
Find out what all happened January to December 1585

Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. (17. August 1585)

The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza. (3. March 1585)

A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Ralegh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. (17. August 1585)

John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. (8. August 1585)

The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France. (7. July 1585)

The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony. (9. April 1585)