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Years:
1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594
Decades:
1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century
1591 state leaders

Events

  • June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.
  • July - Capture of Deventer by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.
  • August - September - Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the Duke of Parma near Arnhem.
  • September 14 - Capture of Hulst by Maurice.
  • October 21 - Capture of Nijmegen by Maurice.
  • October 29 - Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV.
  • Russia, Murder of Dimitri, son of the Tsar.
  • Russia, Boris Godunov is elected Tsar.
  • The city of Hyderabad is founded by Quli Quub Shah.
  • Moroccan invaders sack Timbuktu - many scholars are taken to north by force.
  • Births

  • March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary.
  • August 24 - Robert Herrick, English poet.
  • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter.
  • Isabella, daughter of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy, wife of Alphonso of Este, duke of Modena.
  • Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.
  • Frances Howard, initially married to the 3rd Earl of Essex and later to the Earl of Somerset.
  • Andrew Bobola, Jesuit missionary and martyr.
  • Deaths

  • July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovene composer
  • October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV
  • December 14 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic
  • December 30 - Pope Innocent IX
  • Christian I - Elector of Saxony
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