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Year 1588 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1588

January - June

July - December

  • July - King Henry III of France capitulates to the Duke of Guise and returns to Paris.
  • July 31 - First engagement between the English and Spanish fleets off Plymouth. The English have the better of it.
  • August 2 - The English and Spanish fleets meet again off Dorset. (The English fleet is led by Lord Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Drake.) The English again have the better of it.
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August 6: Battle of Gravelines.

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1588 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1588
MDLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita2341
Armenian calendar1037
ԹՎ ՌԼԷ
Bah' calendar-256 – -255
Buddhist calendar2132
Chinese calendar4224/4284-7-30
(丁亥年七月三十日)
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4225/4285-intercalary 6-11
(戊子年閏六月十一日)
Coptic calendar1304 – 1305
Ethiopian calendar1580 – 1581
Hebrew calendar 5348 – 5349
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1643 – 1644
 - Shaka Samvat1510 – 1511
 - Kali Yuga4689 – 4690
Holocene calendar11588
Iranian calendar966 – 967
Islamic calendar996 – 997
Japanese calendarTenshō 0
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 - Imperial YearKōki 2248
(皇紀2248年)
Julian calendar1633
Korean calendar3921
Thai solar calendar2131
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    The first Portuguese visiting Ceylon was Dom Lourenço de Almeida in 1505 or 1506. Accidentally, after a storm, adverse winds drove him to the island’s coast near Galle. In the last months of the years 1505 or 1506 Dom Lourenço’s fleet anchored off Colombo.
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