Major Events
- Mar 14 Battle of Ivry: French King Henry IV defeats the Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion
- Aug 17 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591]
- Aug 30 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
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Born in 1590
- Jan 30 Anne Clifford, English noblewoman who fought for her inheritance and restored castles, born at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire, England (d. 1676) [1]
- Mar 18 Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet, born in Felgueiras, Kingdom of Portugal (d. 1649)
- Apr 18 Ahmed I, 14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17); constructed the Blue Mosque, born in Manisa Palace, Manisa, Ottoman Empire (d. 1617)
- May 12 Cosimo II de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
- Jun 24 Samuel Ampzing, Dutch minister, poet, translator (Bijbel-poezije - Bible Poetry), and linguist (Taelbericht der Nederlandsche spellinge - Treatise on Dutch Selling), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1632)
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Fun Fact About 1590
Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history
Who Died in 1590
- Jan 7 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
- Feb 1 Lawrence Humphrey, English clergyman and educator, dies at 63
- Feb 4 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer and musical theorist, dies at 73
- Feb 5 Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish Franciscan friar called "the first anthropologist" for his studies of Aztec beliefs and culture, dies (b. 1499) [1]
- Feb 12 François Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer and diplomat (Anti-Tribonien), dies at 65
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William Shakespeare
Elizabeth I
Philip II of Spain