1599
Calendar year
October 18 : Battle of Șelimbăr
1599 (MDXCIX ) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar , the 1599th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 99th year of the 16th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1599, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January 8 – The Jesuit educational plan, known as the Ratio Studiorum January 22 – The Acoma Massacre begins in what is now northern New Mexico in the U.S., as Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico viceroy Juan de Oñate leads 70 armed Spanish soldiers against the indigenous Keres people at Aak'u (the Acoma Pueblo ) near what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico . In three days, 500 Acoma men and 300 women and children are killed by the Spanish.[ 1] February 20 – On Shrove Tuesday, the earliest known performance of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It is given, presented at Richmond Park for Queen Elizabeth.February 21
March 12 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , by Queen Elizabeth I of England .
April 23 – The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.May 15 – Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) : The Siege of Zaltbommel , located in the Dutch Republic, is begun by Spanish general Francisco López de Mendoza .May 16 – The Kalmar Bloodbath takes place in Kalmar , Sweden.May 29 – Essex takes Cahir Castle , supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege .[ 3] June 1 – Bishops' Ban of 1599 : The Archbishop of Canterbury , John Whitgift , and the Bishop of London , Richard Bancroft order a ban on a selection of literary works, including Microcynicon: Six Snarling Satires Thomas Middleton .June 20 – The Synod of Diamper is convened.
Date unknown
Births
Saint John Berchmans
Oliver Cromwell April 9 – Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet (d. 1655 )April 17 – Patrick Fleming , Irish Franciscan friar and scholar (murdered) (d. 1631 )April 25 – Oliver Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1658 )[ 9] May 16 – Nicolaes Olycan , Dutch businessman (d. 1639 )May 30 – Samuel Bochart , French Protestant biblical scholar (d. 1667 )June 1 – Elizabeth Lucretia, Duchess of Cieszyn , Duchess suo jure of Cieszyn (d. 1653 )June 6 – Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter (d. 1660 )June 24 – Konoe Nobuhiro , Japanese court noble (d. 1649 )[ 10]
July 23 – Stephanius , Danish historian (d. 1650 )July 27 – Albert IV, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1640–1644) (d. 1644 )August 11 – Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1630–1656) (d. 1656 )August 13 – Johannes Buxtorf II , Swiss theologian (d. 1664 )August 14 – Méric Casaubon , English classicist (d. 1671 )August 16 – Diego López Pacheco, 7th Duke of Escalona , Spanish noble (d. 1653 )August 22 – Agatha Marie of Hanau , German noblewoman (d. 1636 )September 7 – Jacob Westerbaen , Dutch poet (d. 1670 )September 20 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel , German Protestant military leader (d. 1626 )September 24 – Adam Olearius , German scholar (d. 1671 )September 25 – Francesco Borromini , Swiss sculptor and architect (d. 1667 )September 30 – Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (d. 1674 )
October 10
October 11 – Abraham de Fabert , Marshal of France (d. 1662 )October 15 – Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch mayor (d. 1664 )October 28 – Marie of the Incarnation , French foundress of the Ursuline Monastery in Quebec (d. 1672 )October 31 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles , English statesman and writer (d. 1680 )November 5 – Carlo Emanuele Madruzzo , Italian prince-bishop (d. 1658 )November 11
November 13 – Otto Christoph von Sparr , German general (d. 1668 )November 15 – Werner Rolfinck , German physician, chemist, botanist and philosopher (d. 1673 )November 29 – Peter Heylin , English ecclesiastic and author of many polemical works (d. 1662 )November 30 – Andrea Sacchi , Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism (d. 1661 )December 2
December 11 – Pieter Codde , Dutch painter (d. 1678 )December 14 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge , English politician (d. 1668 )December 16 – Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux , French poet (d. 1673 )December 20 – Niels Trolle , Governor General of Norway (d. 1667 )December 29 – Gabriel Bucelin , German historian (d. 1681 )
Date unknown
Deaths
Cornelis de Houtman Andrew Báthory January 13 – Edmund Spenser , English poet (b. 1552 )[ 11] January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi , Italian composer (b. 1547 )February 8 – Robert Rollock , Scottish Presbyterian, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (b. 1555 )March 19 – Stanisław Radziwiłł , Grand Marshal of Lithuania (b. 1559 )April 1 – Matsura Takanobu , Japanese samurai (b, 1529 )[ 12] April 10 – Gabrielle d'Estrées , mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1573 )[ 13] April 14 – Henry Wallop , English statesman (b. c. 1540 )April 22 – Lorenz Scholz von Rosenau , German botanist (b. 1552 )April 27 – Maeda Toshiie , Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1538 )May 12 – Sultan Murad Mirza , Mughal prince (b. 1570 )May 28 – Maria of Nassau , Dutch Countess (b. 1539 )June 2 – Philipp V, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1541 )June 14 – Kōriki Masanaga , Japanese military commander (b. 1558 )June 29 – Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria , Austrian archduchess (b. 1576 )July – Kwon Yul , Korean military commander (b. 1537 )July 11 – Chōsokabe Motochika , Japanese Sengoku Period daimyōAugust 22 – Luca Marenzio , Italian composer (b. 1553 )September 1 – Cornelis de Houtman , Dutch explorer (b.1565 )September 11 – Beatrice Cenci , Italian noblewoman (executed for patricide) (b. 1577 )[ 14] August 8 – Song Ik-pil , Korean scholar (b. 1534 )October 18 – Daniel Adam z Veleslavína , Czech lexicographer (b. 1546 )November 3 – Andrew Báthory , deposed Prince of Transylvania (decapitated) (b. c. 1563)November 7 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi , Italian surgeon (b. 1545 )November 8 – Francisco Guerrero , Spanish composer (b. 1528 )[ 15] November 22 – Nanbu Nobunao , Japanese daimyō (b. 1546 )December 13 – Enrico Caetani , Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1550 )December 14 – Joan Boyle , English noble, first spouse of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (b. 1578 )December 27 – Francisco Pérez de Valenzuela , Spanish noble (b. 1528 )After December 18 – Minye Kyawswa II of Ava , Burmese defecting crown prince of the Toungoo Empire (killed by invading forces) (b. 1567 )
date unknown – Chand Bibi , Indian regent and warrior (b. 1550 )
References
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^ Herbert Berry, Shakespeare's Playhouses (AMS Press, 1987) pp. 82–88
^ William R. Jones (2004). "The Mists of Error Withdrawn": Elizabethan Satire, Cultural Criticism, and the Bishops' Ban of 1599 ^ Guy Le Strange, Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560-1604 (Routledge, 2004) p.4
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