Events from the 1580s in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège.
Habsburg Netherlands
Monarch - Philip II, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.
Governor General - Alexander Farnese, Prince (later Duke) of Parma
Prince-Bishop - Gerard van Groesbeeck to December 1580; Ernest of Bavaria from January 1581
1580
9 April - English Fury at Mechelen
7 May - public disputation on the eucharist in Brussels
9 June - Taking of Diest by rebel forces
9 August - unsuccessful rebel assault on Enghien
Publication of Le Renart decouvert (Mons, Rutger Velpius, 1580), written anonymously by Jean Richardot
1581
30 January - Ernest of Bavaria elected as Prince-bishop of Liège
11 February - Ernest of Bavaria elected Prince-abbot of Stavelot
15 June - joyous entry of Ernest of Bavaria in Liège
1 July - Catholic worship prohibited in Antwerp
30 November - Alexander Farnese takes Tournai
1582
19 February - festive reception of Francis, Duke of Anjou in Antwerp
30 April - Jesuit school opens in Liège
21 December - Gregorian calendar adopted in the Southern Netherlands
1583
17 January - French Fury at Antwerp: failed coup by Francis, Duke of Anjou
16 February - Simon Stevin matriculates at Leiden University
23 May - Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, elected Archbishop-Elector of Cologne
17 June - Battle of Steenbergen (1583)
30 October - Joannes Hauchin consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
2 November - Gregorian calendar adopted in Prince-Bishopric of Liège
3 November - Taking of Aalst
30 November - Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, appointed mayor of Antwerp
Publication of Justus Lipsius, De Constantia
1584
7 April - end of the Siege of Ypres (1584)
28 May - Bruges surrendered to Alexander Farnese
17 August - taking of Dendermonde
17 September - surrender of Ghent
1585
10 March - surrender of Brussels
10 August - Treaty of Nonsuch: Elizabeth I publicly pledges support to Dutch Revolt
17 August - Fall of Antwerp
3 November - relics of St Rumbold restored to St Rumbold's Cathedral
1586
18 September - Alexander Farnese becomes Duke of Parma
1587
15 May - Edict, ordonnance et instruction sur l'exercice et l'administration de la jurisdiction et justice militaire
Publication of Sancho de Londoño's, Discurso sobre la forma de reducir la disciplina militar a mejor y antiguo estado (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1587)
Publication of William Allen's, The copie of a letter concerning the yeelding up of Daventrie unto his catholike majestie, by sir William Stanley knight – a justification of Sir William Stanley's surrender of Deventer
1588
29 May - Jean Vendeville consecrated bishop of Tournai
22 July - William Damasus Lindanus installed as bishop of Ghent
28 July - Battle of Gravelines
Publication of Statuta synodalia dioecesis Atrebatensis cum praedecessorum statutis adjectis (printed by Joachim Trognaesius for Claude de Buyens, Arras) – statutes of the diocesan synod of the diocese of Arras
Printing of William Allen's An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland (printed anonymously by Arnout Coninx)
1589
ecclesiastical censorship of the press and the theatre established by Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, Lettres patentes pour la conservation et maintien de la foy et religion chrestienne catholique apostolique romaine es païz de l'evesché et principauté de Liége (printed in Liège by Gautier Morberius)
Publication of Francisco de Valdés', Espeio, y deceplina militar (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1589)
1580
1581
1583
10 April - Nicolaus Vernulaeus (died 1649), New Latin playwright
1584
1585
28 October - Cornelius Jansen (died 1638), theologian and bishop of Ypres
1586
15 September - Antonius Sanderus (died 1664), ecclesiastical historian
Johannes van Mildert
1587
1588
1589
1580
1 August - Everard Mercurian (born 1514)
26 October - Anna of Austria (born 1549)
23 December - Gerard van Groesbeeck, Prince-Bishop of Liège
1581
1582
11 December - Duke of Alva (born 1507), former Governor of the Netherlands (1567–1573)
1583
1584
10 July - William of Orange (born 1533) assassinated in Delft
1585
10 March - Rembert Dodoens (born 1517)
1586
18 January - Margaret of Parma (born 1522), former Governor of the Netherlands (1559–1567 and 1578–1582)
21 September - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (born 1517), former Archbishop of Mechelen (1561–1582)
11 October - Jean Six, bishop of Saint-Omer
1587
19 September - Jacobus Pamelius (born 1536), theologian
1588
17 March - Petrus Dathenus (born about 1531), translator of the Heidelberg Catechism and of metrical psalms into Dutch
2 November - William Damasus Lindanus, Bishop of Ghent
1589
5 January - Joannes Hauchin, second Archbishop of Mechelen
22 March - Lodovico Guicciardini (born 1521), Florentine merchant in Antwerp
1 July - Christophe Plantin (born about 1520), printer and bookseller in Antwerp
