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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
Category:1591
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