1590

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1590 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

• 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 relief with a Spanish army.
• May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.
• 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 226th pope.
• December 5 - Pope Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII as the 227th pope.
• Coptic Pope Gabriel VIII succeeds Yoannis XIV.
• Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Meletius I succeeds Silvester.
• Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Births

• March 18 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (died 1649)
• April 18 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)
• May 12 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1621)
• July 13 - Pope Clement X (died 1676)
• August 19 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
• William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (died 1657)
• William Browne, English poet (died 1645)
• Francis Burgersdyk, Dutch logician (died 1629)
• Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (died 1648)
• William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (died 1618)
• Lady Anne Clifford, English noblewoman (died 1676)
• Crellius, Polish–German theologian (died 1633)
• Theophilus Eaton, merchant (died 1658)
• Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (died 1640)
• Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English courtier and soldier (died 1649)
• Gerhard van Honthorst, Dutch painter (died 1656)
• Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (died 1664)
• Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (died 1661)
• Michael O'Clery, Irish chronicler (died 1643)
• Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (died 1646)
• Simon Vouet, French painter (died 1649)
• Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
• Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (died 1630)

See also Category:1590 births.

Deaths

• February 1 - Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527)
• February 4 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (born 1517)
• February 12 - François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (born 1524)
• April 6 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (born 1530)
• July 10 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (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 12 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (born 1543)
• 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)
• Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (born 1511)
• Catharine de Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (born 1522)
• Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (born 1539)
• Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (born 1520)
• Roger Dudley, British soldier (born 1535)
• Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (born 1505)
• Bernard Palissy, French potter (born 1510)
• Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
• Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (born 1499)

See also Category:1590 deaths.