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Year '1599' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1599

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1599

January - June

★ 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 29 - Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.

July - December

★ July 24 - The Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes king Charles IX.

★ August 15 - First Battle of Curlew Pass won by Irish forces.

★ September 28 - The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.

★ December 31 - The British East India Company sets sail for India.

Undated

★ The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued (January 8).

★ First reported performance of Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' in London.

★ Shakespeare drafts his renowned play, ''Hamlet''.

★ The Globe Theatre opens in London.

★ First Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo.

Births

★ February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)

★ March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (died 1641)

★ March 28 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (died 1658)

★ April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1658)

★ June 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)

★ August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)

★ September 20 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)

★ September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (died 1667)

★ October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)

★ November 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (died 1656)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (died 1687)

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★ Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)

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★ Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (died 1665)

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★ Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (died 1684)

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★ Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (died 1660)
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Deaths

★ January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)

★ January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (born 1547)

★ February 8 - Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (born 1555)

★ April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (born 1571)

★ April 14 - Henry Wallop, English statesman (born c1540)

★ April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1538)

★ August - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565)

★ August 22 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (born 1577)

★ August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born 1553)

★ November 7 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (born 1546)

★ November 8 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born 1528)

★ December 14 – Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (born 1568)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (born 1537)

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★ Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (born 1558)

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★ Chand Bibi, Indian woman warrior, killed by her own troops (born 1550)
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