1581
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1581.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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Decades: | 1550s | 1560s | 1570s | 1580s | 1590s | 1600s | 1610s |
Years: | 1578 | 1579 | 1580 | 1581 | 1582 | 1583 | 1584 |
Undated
January
February
March
April
May
June
- June 17:
- Event: Execution of Christman Genipperteinga begins. It takes 9 days on The Wheel to kill him.
July
August
September
- September 16:
- Event: Peter Niers executed for the murder of 544 people, and allegations of cannibalism and black magic.
October
- October 15:
- Event: Ballet Comique de la Reine - the first ballet was attended by 10,000 people, and was probably a hotbed of espionage and political maneuvering
November
December
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