1599

Years:
1596 1597 1598 - 1599 - 1600 1601 1602

Decades:
1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s

Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century


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Events

The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued (January 8).
Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden.
First reported performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in London.
Shakespeare drafts his renowned play, Hamlet.
First Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo
First Battle of Curlew Pass won by Irish forces, 15th August

February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)
March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (died 1641)
March 28 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (died 1658)
April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1658)
August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
September 20 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German protestant military leader (d. 1623)
September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (died 1667)
October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
November 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (died 1656)
John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (died 1687)
Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)
Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (died 1665)
Abraham Van Diepenbeck, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1675)
Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (died 1684)
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (died 1660)
Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)

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January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)
January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (born 1547)
February 8 - Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (born 1555)
April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (born 1571)
April 14 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1538)
August 22 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (born 1577)
August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born 1553)
November 7 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (born 1546)
November 8 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born 1528)
Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (born 1537)
Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (born 1568)
Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565)
Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (born 1558)
Israel ben Moses Najara, Jewish liturgical poet (born 1530)

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