Editing 1584 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 26]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Slunj]] in the Kingdom of Croatia, an Ottoman invasion led by [[Ferhad Pasha Sokolović]] is turned back by Croatian forces, aided by troops of the Habsburg monarchy.<ref>Ive Mažuran, ''Povijest Hrvatske od 15. stoljeća do 18. stoljeća'' [History of Croatia from the 15th to the 18th century] (in Croatian) (Golden marketing, 1998) p. 138.</ref>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; In the wake of the [[Throckmorton plot]] to overthrow her government, Queen Elizabeth convenes a new session of the English House of Commons since 1581. [[John Puckering]] is appointed by her as the Speaker of the House of Commons, which has 460 members. The parliament passes the [[Safety of the Queen, etc. Act 1584|Safety of the Queen Act]] and the [[Jesuits, etc. Act 1584|Jesuits Act 1584]],<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/parliament/1584 "5th Parliament of Elizabeth I, 27 Eliz. I"], History of Parliament online</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; [[Albert Fontenay]] sends an enciphered letter to [[Mary, Queen of Scots]] that will become the chief evidence against her in her trial for treason during the [[Babington Plot]]. After becoming a witness for the English government in return for immunity from prosecution, [[Jérôme Pasquier (courtier)|Jérôme Pasquier]] will decipher the letter in 1586, leading to Mary's conviction for an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and to overthrow the English government.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/calendarofstatep08grea/page/68/mode/ "The Enterprise of England"], in ''Calendar of the state papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots, 1547-1605'' (General Register Office of Scotland, 1914) pp.74-75</ref> 
* [[December 31]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Joinville]] is signed secretly between the French Catholic League and [[Spain]].<ref>Frederic J. Baumgartner, ''Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought of the French Catholic League'' (Librairie Droz, 1975)</ref>