Explore 160 historical events from 1590–1599.
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)
Jean Liébault was a doctor and agronomist, born in Dijon.
Jean Liebault, French agronomist and physician (born 1535)
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon was an English peer and courtier. He was the patron of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare's playing company. The son of Mary Boleyn, he …
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of 11. Some Shakespearean scholar…
Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (born 1585)
Anna Jagiellon was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.
Anna Jagiellon, Polish queen (born 1523)
Leonhard Rauwolf was a German physician, botanist, and traveller. His main notability arises from a trip he made through the Levant and Mesopotamia in 1573–75. The motive of the tr…
Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (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
The Army of the Holy Roman Empire was created in 1422 and came to an end when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars.
An imperial army retakes the city of Esztergom from the Ottoman Empire.
Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Sweden and Russia. Born into the House of Vasa as a prince of Poland an…
Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (died 1648)
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
The Long Turkish War, or Thirteen Years' War, was an indecisive land war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, primarily over the principalities of Wallachia, Trans…
Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and…
Jan Marek Marci, also known as Johannes Marcus Marci was a Czech medical doctor and scientist. He was the rector of the University of Prague and official medical doctor to the Holy…
Jan Marek Marci, Czech medical doctor and scientist (died 1667)
Guru Hargobind was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He became Guru at the age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (died 1644)
Philipp Wolfgang was a count of Hanau-Lichtenberg. He ruled the county from 1625 until his death.
Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1641)
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)
Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable star…
Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
António, Prior of Crato, sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist" or "The Resistant", was a grandson of King Manuel I of Portugal who claimed the Port…
António, Prior of Crato (born 1531)
Baillie John MacMorran (1553-1595), a merchant and Baillie of Edinburgh, was killed during a riot at Edinburgh High School. His house at Riddle's Court is a valued monument on Edin…
John MacMorran, Baillie of Edinburgh, shot by rioting high school schoolchildren.
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
James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, un…
King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
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)
Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.…
Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to