1580 in literature

• March – Thomas Legge's Latin play about Richard III of England, Richardus Tertius, the first known history play performed in England, is acted by students at St John's College, Cambridge. • July 12 – The Ostrog Bible, the first complete printed Bible translation into a Slavic language (Old Church Slavonic), is first printed at Ostroh in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern-day Ukraine) by Ivan Fyodorov. ==New books==

• Book of Concord • Jean Bodin – De la demonomanie des sorciers • Veronica Franco – Lettere familiari a diversi • Robert Greene – Mamillia • John Lyly – Euphues and his England • Michel de Montaigne – Essais • Anthony Munday – Zelauto ==New drama==

• Robert Garnier – Antigone • Thomas Legge – Richardus Tertius ==Poetry==

• Luís Vaz de Camões – Luís Vaz de Camões • Jan Kochanowski – Laments (Treny) ==Births==

• March 5 – Christophe Justel, French scholar (died 1649) • April 18 (date of baptism) – Thomas Middleton, English poet and dramatist (died 1627) • June 9 – Daniel Heinsius, Dutch scholar (died 1655) • September 17 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Golden Age writer (died 1645) • October 12 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish poet (died 1633) • unknown dates • Charles François d'Abra de Raconis, French theologian (died 1646) • Manuel de Almeida, Spanish historian (died 1646) • Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (died 1664) • Philipp Clüver, German historian (died 1623) • Ling Mengchu (凌濛初), Chinese vernacular writer (died 1644) • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet (died 1621) • Francisco de Lugo, Spanish theologian (died 1652) ==Deaths==

• May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English poet (born 1524) • June 10 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born c.1524) • June 22 – Hernando de Acuña, Spanish translator (born c.1520) • August 20 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (born 1506) • October 8 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (born 1516) • November 3 – Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (born 1512) • unknown dates • Sebastián de Horozco, Spanish poet and dramatist (born 1510) • Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, Scottish chronicler (born c.1532) • probable – Raphael Holinshed, chronicler ==References==