Editing 1584 (section)

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 3]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585)|Siege of Antwerp]] by the Spanish Army begins<ref>Ronald P. de Graaf, ''Oorlog, mijn arme schapen'' (Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, 2004) p.128</ref> and lasts for 13 months until Antwerp's surrender on August 17, 1585.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Antwerp|title=Battle of Antwerp {{!}} Summary|work=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=2017-11-21|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The [[Maronite College]] is established in [[Rome]].<ref>{{cite book |last1= Abouzayd|first1=Shafiq |editor1-last=King |editor1-first=Daniel |title=The Syriac world |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-138-89901-8|page=739 |chapter=The Maronite Church|language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[William the Silent|Willem van Oranje]], the leader of the [[Dutch Republic]] as [[Stadtholder]] of Holland, is assassinated in [[Delft]]. [[Balthasar Gérard]], who bought two [[wheel-lock]] pistols and then made an appointment with at the [[Prinsenhof]], shoots William in the chest at close range and fatally wounds him, making William the first head of state to be assassinated with a handgun.<ref>"The pistol as assassination weapon: A case of technological lag", by A. D. Harvey, ''Terrorism and Political Violence'' (June 1991)</ref> 
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Russian conquest of Siberia]]: Russian General [[Yermak Timofeyevich]], who had been dispatched by Ivan the Terrible in 1582 to conquer the [[Khanate of Sibir]], is killed along with all but one member of his invading force in an ambush commanded by [[Kuchum Khan]], the ruler of Siberia.<ref>Yuri Semyenov, ''The Conquest of Siberia'' (Routledge & Sons, 1944) p.84</ref><ref>A. J. Haywood, ''Siberia: A Cultural History'' (Oxford University Press, 2010) p.18</ref>
* [[August 7]] &ndash; In [[Lima]] in the [[Viceroyalty of Peru]], Italian printer [[Antonio Ricardo]] receives official permission to set up the first printing press in [[South America]], and prints the first publication there, ''Pragmatica'', a four-page outline of how the new [[Gregorian calendar]] (adopted 1582) works.<ref>Nicole Howard, ''The Book: The Life Story of a Technology'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005) p.86</ref>
* [[August 11]] &ndash; (Tenshō 12, 16th day of the 7th month) The [[Tenshō embassy]], Japan's first diplomatic mission to Europe, arrives in Portugal with four teenagers— Julião Nakaura, Mancio Itō, Martinho Hara and Miguel Chijiwa— who had become converts to Christianity.<ref>"Spiritual Saga: When Four Boys Went to Meet the Pope, 400 Years Ago", by Michael Cooper, ''The Japan Times'', February 21, 1982</ref>
* [[September 17]] &ndash; In what is now Belgium, the [[Calvinist Republic of Ghent]] comes to an end after seven years when its capital, [[Ghent]], falls following [[Siege of Ghent (1583–1584)|a siege of 13 months]]. [[Jan van Hembyze]], leader of the republic since October 1583, surrenders the city to [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma|Alexander Farnese]], Governor of the [[Spanish Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite book|url=http://chestofbooks.com/reference/American-Cyclopaedia-V7/Ghent.html|chapter=Ghent|title=The American Cyclopaedia|first1=George|last1=Ripley|author-link1=George Ripley (transcendentalist)|first2=Charles A.|last2=Dana|author-link2=Charles Anderson Dana|volume=7|year=1873|publisher=D. Appleton & Co|location=New York|access-date=2011-12-04}}</ref>