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January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII.
Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university
Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy
Japan invades Korea
Births
January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist.
March 28 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher.
August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
Wilhelm Schickard, builder of "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine, what was capable of adding and subtracting up to 6 digit numbers.
Sir John Eliot, English statesman.
Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the British Empire.
Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist.
Nicholas Ferrar Involved in the London Virginia Company
Hong Taiji, later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu.
Deaths
September 3 - Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker.
November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden
Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately)
Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor.
Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer.
December - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.
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