1590
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This article is about the year 1590.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s |
| Years: | 1587 1588 1589 – 1590 – 1591 1592 1593 |
| 1590 by topic |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1590 MDXC |
| Ab urbe condita | 2343 |
| Armenian calendar | 1039 ԹՎ ՌԼԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6340 |
| Bengali calendar | 997 |
| Berber calendar | 2540 |
| English Regnal year | 32 Eliz. 1 – 33 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2134 |
| Burmese calendar | 952 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7098–7099 |
| Chinese calendar | 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4286 or 4226 — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4287 or 4227 |
| Coptic calendar | 1306–1307 |
| Discordian calendar | 2756 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1582–1583 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5350–5351 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1646–1647 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1512–1513 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4691–4692 |
| Holocene calendar | 11590 |
| Igbo calendar | 590–591 |
| Iranian calendar | 968–969 |
| Islamic calendar | 998–999 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 18 (天正18年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3923 |
| Minguo calendar | 322 before ROC 民前322年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2132–2133 |
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Year 1590 (MDXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 11 – The Cortes of Castile approves 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 14 – Battle of Ivry: Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne.
- May–August – Henry IV of France unsuccessfully attempts to besiege Paris. Henry is forced to raise the siege when Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma comes to its rescue with a Spanish army.
- May 17 – Anne of Denmark is crowned queen consort of Scotland at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.
- May 21 – The Treaty of Constantinople is signed.
July–December[edit]
- August 18 – John White, governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. After the unsuccessful search, he returns to England on October 24.
- September 15 – Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V as the 228th pope; he dies of malaria twelve days later.
- September 15 – The Neulengbach earthquake causes significant damage and some loss of life in Lower Austria and Vienna; the effects are felt as far as Bohemia and Silesia.
- December 5 – Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII as the 229th pope.
- December 7 – North Berwick witch trials: Agnes Sampson is questioned by King James VI of Scotland and confesses to practising witchcraft.
Date unknown[edit]
- Orthodox Patriarch Meletius I of Alexandria succeeds Silvester.
- Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
- The Spanish are pushed out of southern Gelderland by the Dutch forces.
- A group of English merchants gains the right to trade in Ottoman territory in return for supplying the sultan with iron, steel, brass and tin for his war with Persia.
Births[edit]
- January 9 – Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)
- January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, English noblewoman (d. 1676)
- March – Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (d. 1664)
- March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
- April 18 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
- May – William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (d. 1618)
- May 3 – Franco Burgersdijk, Dutch logician (d. 1629)
- May 5 – Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1646)
- May 12 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
- June 1 – Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (d. 1640)
- July 13 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
- July 26 – Johannes Crellius, Polish–German theologian (d. 1633)
- August 19 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
- date unknown
- Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (d. 1648)
- Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (d. 1661)
- Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (d. 1630)
- probable
- William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
- William Browne, English poet (d. 1645)
- Theophilus Eaton, Puritan colonial merchant (d. 1658)
- Kösem Sultan (d. 1651)
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (d. 1643)
Deaths[edit]
- January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (b. 1528)
- February 1
- Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (b. 1527)
- Catherine of Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (b. 1522)
- February 4 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1517)
- February 12
- François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
- Blanche Parry, personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1508)
- February 18 – Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sister (b. 1543)
- February 21 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528)
- April 6 – Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1530)
- May 9 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)
- May 27 – Richard Hill, Richard Holiday, John Hogg and Edmund Duke, executed Roman Catholic priests
- June 19 – Mogami Yoshimori, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
- June 28 – Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1553)
- July 10 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
- August 10
- Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1538)
- Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord (b. 1540?)
- August 27 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
- September 20 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
- September 27 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
- September 29 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522)
- October 4 – Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (b. 1520)
- October 12 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
- October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (b. 1499)
- November 18 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
- November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
- December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (b. 1510)
- date unknown
- Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (b. 1511)
- Roger Dudley, British soldier (b. 1535)
- Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (b. 1505)
- Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
- probable – Bernard Palissy, French potter (b. 1510)