Explore 57 historical events from 1590–1599.
Oliver Cromwell was an English statesman, farmer and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the …
Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet was an English politician and baronet.
Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1647)
Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state …
Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling…
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (died 1671)
Wilhelm Schickard was a German professor of Hebrew and astronomy who became famous in the second part of the 20th century after Franz Hammer, a biographer of Johannes Kepler, claim…
Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1635)
Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from…
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (died 1653)
Mumtaz Mahal was the empress consort of Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1631 as the chief consort of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan. The Taj Mahal in Agra, often cited as one of t…
Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal empress buried at the Taj Mahal (died 1631)
Ahmed I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 to 1617. Ahmed's reign is noteworthy for marking the first breach in the Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide; henceforth, O…
Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617)
Anne of Denmark was Queen of Scotland from her marriage to King James VI on 20 August 1589 and became the Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English Cr…
Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland
Oliver Cromwell was an English statesman, farmer and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in British history. He came to prominence during the Wars of the …
Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (died 1658)
Samuel Bochart was a French biblical scholar and Reformed minister, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet. His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg e…
Samuel Bochart, French Protestant biblical scholar (died 1667)
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is ge…
Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (died 1660)
Maeda Toshiie was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi–Momoyama period. His preferred weapon was a …
Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (born 1538)
Murad Mirza was a Mughal prince and the second surviving son of Mughal Emperor Akbar. He was raised by Salima Sultan Begum until the age of 5. He was the maternal grandfather of Na…
Murad Mirza, Mughal prince (born 1570)
Juan de Oñate y Salazar was a Spanish conquistador, explorer and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain, in the present-day U.S. state …
Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from…
Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp or Maarten van Tromp was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (died 1653)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling…
Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian priest and astronomer (died 1671)
Gilbert Sheldon was an English religious leader who served as the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1663 until his death.
Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)
Pieter Janszoon Saenredam was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors such as Interior of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem…
Pieter Jansz
José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's h…
José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.
Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (born 1550)
Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.
Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island
Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.
The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen
Peter Wtewael was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Peter Wtewael, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1660)
Giaches de Wert was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Italy. Intimately connected with the progressive musical center of Ferrara, he was one of the leade…
Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (born 1535)
Saint Sava, known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a w…
The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site
A nomenclator, in classical times, referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to in…
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library
Władysław IV Vasa or Ladislaus IV was King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and claimant of the thrones of Sweden and Russia. Born into the House of Vasa as a prince of Poland an…
Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king (died 1648)
Jan Marek Marci, also known as Johannes Marcus Marci was a Czech medical doctor and scientist. He was the rector of the University of Prague and official medical doctor to the Holy…
Jan Marek Marci, Czech medical doctor and scientist (died 1667)
The Battle of Clontibret was fought in County Monaghan in May 1595, during the Nine Years' War in Ireland. A column of 1,750 English troops led by Henry Bagenal was ambushed near C…
A Gaelic Irish army successfully ambushes an English force in the battle of Clontibret during the Nine Years' War
Guru Hargobind was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He became Guru at the age of eleven, after the execution of his father, Guru Arjan, by the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (died 1644)
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christ…
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet and songwriter (born 1544)