This article is about the year 1599.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s |
Years: | 1596 1597 1598 – 1599 – 1600 1601 1602 |
1599 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1599 MDXCIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2352 |
Armenian calendar | 1048 ԹՎ ՌԽԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6349 |
Bahá'í calendar | -245–-244 |
Bengali calendar | 1006 |
Berber calendar | 2549 |
English Regnal year | 41 Eliz. 1 – 42 Eliz. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2143 |
Burmese calendar | 961 |
Byzantine calendar | 7107–7108 |
Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十二月初五日 (4235/4295-12-5) — to —
己亥年十一月十五日(4236/4296-11-15) |
Coptic calendar | 1315–1316 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1591–1592 |
Hebrew calendar | 5359–5360 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1655–1656 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1521–1522 |
- Kali Yuga | 4700–4701 |
Holocene calendar | 11599 |
Iranian calendar | 977–978 |
Islamic calendar | 1007–1008 |
Japanese calendar | Keichō 4 (慶長4年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3932 |
Minguo calendar | 313 before ROC 民前313年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2142 |
Year 1599 (MDXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 8 – The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued.
- March 12 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
- April 23 – The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.
- May 29 – Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.
- June 20 – The Synod of Diamper is convened.
July–December
- July 24 – The Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.
- August 15 – First Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces defeat the English.
- September 21 – The first performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.
- September 28 – The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.
- November – A Persian embassy arrives in Moscow.
Date unknown
- The first Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo.
- A Dutch fleet returns to Amsterdam, carrying 600,000 pounds of pepper and 250,000 pounds of cloves and nutmeg.
Births
- February 13 – Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
- March 22 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
- March 28 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
- April 25 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1658)
- June 6 – Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
- August 14 – Méric Casaubon, English classicist (d. 1671)
- September 20 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (d. 1626)
- September 25 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (d. 1667)
- October 31 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
- November 11 – Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
- date unknown
- John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (d. 1687)
- Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)
- Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (d. 1665)
- Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (d. 1660)
Deaths
- January 13 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
- January 22 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
- February 8 – Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (b. 1555)
- April 10 – Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
- April 14 – Henry Wallop, English statesman (b. c. 1540)
- April 27 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1538)
- July 11 – Chosokabe Motochika, Sengoku Period Daiymo
- August – Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b. 1565)
- August 22
- Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (b. 1577)
- Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
- November 7 – Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
- November 8 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
- December 14 – Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (b. 1568)
- date unknown
- Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (b. 1537)
- Kōriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (b. 1558)
- Chand Bibi, Indian woman warrior (by her own troops) (b. 1550)