1590

This article is about the year 1590.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1560s  1570s  1580s  – 1590s –  1600s  1610s  1620s
Years:	1587 1588 1589 – 1590 – 1591 1592 1593

1590 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1590 MDXC
Ab urbe condita	2343
Armenian calendar	1039 ԹՎ ՌԼԹ
Assyrian calendar	6340
Bengali calendar	997
Berber calendar	2540
English Regnal year	32 Eliz. 1 – 33 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2134
Burmese calendar	952
Byzantine calendar	7098–7099
Chinese calendar	己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4286 or 4226     — to — 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4287 or 4227
Coptic calendar	1306–1307
Discordian calendar	2756
Ethiopian calendar	1582–1583
Hebrew calendar	5350–5351
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1646–1647
- Shaka Samvat	1512–1513
- Kali Yuga	4691–4692
Holocene calendar	11590
Igbo calendar	590–591
Iranian calendar	968–969
Islamic calendar	998–999
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 18 (天正１８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3923
Minguo calendar	322 before ROC 民前322年
Thai solar calendar	2132–2133

May 17: Anne of Denmark

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1590 (MDXC) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1590th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 590th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1590s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1590 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 11 – The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the "millones".
• March – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat to get through the impregnable defences.
• March 14 – Battle of Ivry: Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne.
• May–August – Henry IV of France unsuccessfully attempts to besiege Paris. Henry is forced to raise the siege when Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma comes to its rescue with a Spanish army.
• May 17 – Anne of Denmark is crowned queen consort of Scotland at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh.
• May 21 – The Treaty of Constantinople is signed.

July–December

• August 18 – John White, governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. After the unsuccessful search, he returns to England on October 24.
• September 15 – Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V as the 228th pope; he dies of malaria twelve days later.
• September 15 – The Neulengbach earthquake causes significant damage and some loss of life in Lower Austria and Vienna; the effects are felt as far as Bohemia and Silesia.
• December 5 – Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII as the 229th pope.
• December 7 – North Berwick witch trials: Agnes Sampson is questioned by King James VI of Scotland and confesses to practising witchcraft.

Date unknown

• Orthodox Patriarch Meletius I of Alexandria succeeds Silvester.
• Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
• The Spanish are pushed out of southern Gelderland by the Dutch forces.
• A group of English merchants gains the right to trade in Ottoman territory in return for supplying the sultan with iron, steel, brass and tin for his war with Persia.

Births

• January 9 – Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)
• January 30 – Lady Anne Clifford, English noblewoman (d. 1676)
• March – Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (d. 1664)
• March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
• April 18 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
• May – William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros (d. 1618)
• May 3 – Franco Burgersdijk, Dutch logician (d. 1629)
• May 5 – Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble (d. 1646)
• May 12 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
• June 1 – Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (d. 1640)
• July 13 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
• July 26 – Johannes Crellius, Polish–German theologian (d. 1633)
• August 19 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
• date unknown
  • Isaac de Caus, French landscaper (d. 1648)
  • Boris Morozov, Russian statesman and boyar (d. 1661)
  • Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese adventurer (d. 1630)
• probable
  • William Bradford, English leader of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
  • William Browne, English poet (d. 1645)
  • Theophilus Eaton, Puritan colonial merchant (d. 1658)
  • Kösem Sultan (d. 1651)
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish chronicler (d. 1643)

Deaths

• January 7 – Jakob Andreae, German theologian (b. 1528)
• February 1
  • Lawrence Humphrey, president of Magdalen College, Oxford (b. 1527)
  • Catherine of Ricci, Catholic prioress and saint (b. 1522)
• February 4 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian music theorist and composer (b. 1517)
• February 12
  • François Hotman, French Protestant lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
  • Blanche Parry, personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1508)
• February 18 – Asahi no kata, Japanese lady, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sister (b. 1543)
• February 21 – Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English nobleman and general (b. 1528)
• April 6 – Francis Walsingham, English spymaster (b. 1530)
• May 9 – Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)
• May 27 – Richard Hill, Richard Holiday, John Hogg and Edmund Duke, executed Roman Catholic priests
• June 19 – Mogami Yoshimori, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
• June 28 – Hori Hidemasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1553)
• July 10 – Charles II, Archduke of Austria, regent of Inner Austria (b. 1540)
• August 10
  • Hōjō Ujimasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1538)
  • Hōjō Ujiteru, Japanese warlord (b. 1540？)
• August 27 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)
• September 20 – Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (b. 1534)
• September 27 – Pope Urban VII (b. 1521)
• September 29 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch politician and theologian (b. 1522)
• October 4 – Jacques Cujas, French legal expert (b. 1520)
• October 12 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
• October 23 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (b. 1499)
• November 18 – George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
• November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
• December 20 – Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (b. 1510)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Bobadilla, one of the first Jesuits (b. 1511)
  • Roger Dudley, British soldier (b. 1535)
  • Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Irish chieftain (b. 1505)
  • Juan Bautista de Pomar, Spanish colonial historian and writer
• probable – Bernard Palissy, French potter (b. 1510)