Explore 38 historical events from 1590–1599.
Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state …
Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from…
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling…
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (died 1671)
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet was an English politician and baronet.
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1647)
Oliver Cromwell was an English statesman, farmer and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the …
Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
Anne of Denmark was Queen of Scotland from her marriage to King James VI on 20 August 1589 and became the Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English Cr…
Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland
Ahmed I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, O…
Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (died 1653)
Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer of Johannes Kepler, claim…
Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1635)
Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of t…
Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631)
Oliver Cromwell was an English statesman, farmer and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the …
Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
Samuel Bochart was a French biblical scholar and Reformed minister, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg e…
Samuel Bochart, French Protestant biblical scholar (died 1667)
Maeda Toshiie was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. His preferred weapon was a …
Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (born 1538)
Murad Mirza was a Mughal prince and the second surviving son of Mughal Emperor Akbar. He was raised by Salima Sultan Begum until the age of 5. He was the maternal grandfather of Na…
Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (born 1570)
Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state …
Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from…
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (died 1653)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling…
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (died 1671)
Giaches de Wert was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Italy. Intimately connected with the progressive musical center of Ferrara, he was one of the leade…
Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (born 1535)
A nomenclator, in classical times, referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to in…
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library
Saint Sava, known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a w…
The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site
The Battle of Clontibret was fought in County Monaghan in May 1595, during the Nine Years' War in Ireland. A column of 1,750 English troops led by Henry Bagenal was ambushed near C…
A Gaelic Irish army successfully ambushes an English force in the battle of Clontibret during the Nine Years' War
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christ…
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and songwriter (born 1544)
Valens Acidalius, also known as Valtin Havekenthal, was a German critic and poet writing in the Latin language.
Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (born 1567)
Coevorden is a municipality and city in the province of Drenthe, in the northeast of the Netherlands. It shares a provincial border with Overijssel and an international one with Ge…
The Dutch city of Coevorden, held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force
John Haynes, also sometimes spelled Haines, was a colonial magistrate and one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony. He served one term as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Col…
John Haynes, English-American politician, 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1653)
Louis Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg, was Count, and from 1654 Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg. During the Thirty Years' War, he was a senior officer. He climbed to the rank of Major Gener…
Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (died 1662)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded duri…
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (died 1632)
Thomas Cooper was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer.
Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (born 1517)
Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted …
Tintoretto, Italian painter and educator (born 1518)
John Aylmer was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.
John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (born 1521)
Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
London playwright Thomas Kyd is arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel
Thomas Kyd was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet was an English politician and baronet.
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1647)