1590
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Year 1590 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1590
[edit] January - June
- January 11 - The Cortes of Castile approve a new subsidy, the "millones".
- March - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat to get through the impregnable defences.
- March 4 - Lancelot Andrewes, a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I of England, preaches an outspoken sermon in her presence.
- March 14 - Battle of Ivry: Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne.
- May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to its rescue with a Spanish army.
- May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.
[edit] July - December
- August 18 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
- September 15 - Pope Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V as the 228th pope; he dies of malaria twelve days later.
- December 5 - Pope Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII as the 229th pope.
- December 7 - Agnes Sampson is questioned by King James VI of Scotland and confesses to practising witchcraft.
[edit] Undated
- Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Meletius I succeeds Silvester.
- Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
- The Spanish are pushed out of southern Gelderland by the Dutch forces.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1590 MDXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2343 |
| Armenian calendar | 1039 ԹՎ ՌԼԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -254 – -253 |
| Berber calendar | 2540 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2134 |
| Burmese calendar | 952 |
| Chinese calendar | 4226/4286-11-25 (己丑年十一月廿五日) — to — 4227/4287-12-5(庚寅年十二月初五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1306 – 1307 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1582 – 1583 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5350 – 5351 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1645 – 1646 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1512 – 1513 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4691 – 4692 |
| Holocene calendar | 11590 |
| Iranian calendar | 968 – 969 |
| Islamic calendar | 998 – 999 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 18 (天正18年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2250 (皇紀2250年) |
| Julian calendar | 1635 |
| Korean calendar | 3923 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2133 |
- January 9 - Simon Vouet, French painter (died 1649)
- January 30 - Lady Anne Clifford, English noblewoman (died 1676)
- March 18 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
- April 18 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)
- May - William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (died 1618)
- May 5 - Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (died 1646)
- May 12 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1621)
- July 13 - Pope Clement X (died 1676)
- July 26 - Johannes Crellius, Polish–German theologian (died 1633)
- August 19 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
- date unknown
- William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (died 1657)
- Francis Burgersdyk, Dutch logician (died 1629)
- Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (died 1648)
- Theophilus Eaton, merchant (died 1658)
- Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (died 1640)
- Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (died 1664)
- Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (died 1661)
- Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (died 1630)
- probable
- William Browne, English poet (died 1645)
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (died 1643)
- Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
- See also Category:1590 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 1
- Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527)
- Catherine of Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (born 1522)
- February 4 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1517)
- February 12 - François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (born 1524)
- February 18 - Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sister (born 1543)
- April 6 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (born 1530)
- May 9 - Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon French church leader and pretender to the throne (born 1523)
- June 19 - Mogami Yoshimori, Japanese warlord(born 1521)
- June 28 - Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord(born 1553)
- July 10 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (born 1540)
- August 10
- Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (born 1538)
- Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord (born 1540？)
- August 27 - Pope Sixtus V (born 1521)
- September 20 - Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (born 1534)
- September 27 - Pope Urban VII (born 1521)
- September 29 - Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522)
- October 4 - Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (born 1520)
- October 12 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (born 1543)
- October 23 - Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (born 1499)
- November 18 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (born 1528)
- November 29 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (born 1547)
- December 20 - Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (born 1510)
- date unknown
- Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (born 1511)
- José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (born 1539)
- Roger Dudley, British soldier (born 1535)
- Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (born 1505)
- Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
- probable
- Bernard Palissy, French potter (born 1510)
- See also Category:1590 deaths.
[edit] Fictional 1590
- Mark Twain's book The Mysterious Stranger takes place in Austria in 1590.af:1590
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