1590

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Years:	1587 1588 1589 - 1590 - 1591 1592 1593

1590 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

May 17: Anne of Denmark.

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).

1 Events of 1590
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1590

January - June

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 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 - Henry IV of France unsuccessfully attempts to besiege Paris. 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.

July - December

August 18 - John White, governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

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.

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.
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

**1590 in other calendars**
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
Byzantine calendar	7098 – 7099
Chinese calendar	己丑年十一月廿五日 (4226/4286-11-25) — to — 庚寅年十二月初五日 (4227/4287-12-5)
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)
Korean calendar	3923
Thai solar calendar	2133
v • d • e

January 9 - Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)
January 30 - Lady Anne Clifford, English noblewoman (d. 1676)
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 5 - Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1646)
May 12 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
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
- William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
- Francis Burgersdyk, Dutch logician (d. 1629)
- Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (d. 1648)
- Theophilus Eaton, merchant (d. 1658)
- Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (d. 1640)
- Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (d. 1664)
- Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (d. 1661)
- Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (d. 1630)
probable
- William Browne, English poet (d. 1645)
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (d. 1643)
- Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (d. 1646)

Deaths

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)
February 18 - Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sister (b. 1543)
April 6 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1530)
May 9 - Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon French church leader and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)
May 27 - Edmund Duke, Richard Hill, Richard Holiday and John Hogg, executed Roman Catholic priests
June 19 - Mogami Yoshimori, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
June 28 - Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1553)
July 10 - Archduke Charles II 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 - Kano 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 Nikodemus 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)

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