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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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Events of 1590

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Fictional 1590

Events of 1590

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.

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.

Undated

★ Coptic Pope Gabriel VIII succeeds Yoannis XIV.

★ 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.

Births

★ 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''

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★ William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (died 1657)

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★ Francis Burgersdyk, Dutch logician (died 1629)

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★ Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (died 1648)

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★ Theophilus Eaton, merchant (died 1658)

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★ Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (died 1640)

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★ Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (died 1664)

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★ Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (died 1661)

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★ Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (died 1630)

★ ''probable''

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★ William Browne, English poet (died 1645)

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★ Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (died 1643)

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★ Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester (died 1646)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February 1

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★ Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born 1527)

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★ 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

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★ Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (born 1538)

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★ 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''

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★ Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (born 1511)

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★ José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, Portuguese explorer (born 1539)

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★ Roger Dudley, British soldier (born 1535)

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★ Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (born 1505)

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★ Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer

★ ''probable''

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★ Bernard Palissy, French potter (born 1510)
: ''See also .''

Fictional 1590

★ Mark Twain's book ''The Mysterious Stranger'' takes place in Austria in 1590.