1580 in science
The year 1580 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.Astronomy
- The Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din is destroyed by Sultan Selim II.
Exploration
- September 26 – Francis Drake in the Golden Hind sails into Plymouth having completed the second circumnavigation of the world, westabout, begun in 1577.
Geology
- April 6 – Dover Straits earthquake.
Births
- January 12 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist
- December 1 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer
- Peter Crüger, German polymath
- Willebrord Snellius, Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, Snell's law
Deaths
- May 3 – Thomas Tusser, English chorister and agriculturalist
- September 15 – Friedrich Risner, German mathematician
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist.
