1580

Events in 1580 3

• 1524 – 1580 Luís de Camões National Poet Author of Os Lusíadas, the national epic poem celebrating the Portuguese voyages of discovery.
• 1555 – 1580 Alonso Lobo Spanish Renaissance composer Alonso Lobo was a leading Spanish Renaissance composer of sacred polyphony whose masses and motets were performed at Seville Cathedral and widely admired.
• 1580 – 1640 Iberian Union Under the Spanish Crown A 60-year period when the Portuguese and Spanish crowns were united under the Spanish Habsburgs.