Explore 135 historical events from 1590–1599.
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
The Long Turkish War, or Thirteen Years' War, was an indecisive land war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, primarily over the principalities of Wallachia, Trans…
Long Turkish War: Wallachian prince Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and…
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)
Philipp Wolfgang was a count of Hanau-Lichtenberg. He ruled the county from 1625 until his death.
Philipp Wolfgang, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1641)
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)
Valens Acidalius, also known as Valtin Havekenthal, was a German critic and poet writing in the Latin language.
Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (born 1567)
Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable star…
Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
António, Prior of Crato, sometimes called "The Determined", "The Fighter", "The Independentist" or "The Resistant", was a grandson of King Manuel I of Portugal who claimed the Port…
António, Prior of Crato (born 1531)
Coevorden is a municipality and city in the province of Drenthe, in the northeast of the Netherlands. It shares a provincial border with Overijssel and an international one with Ge…
The Dutch city of Coevorden, held by the Spanish, falls to a Dutch and English force
Louis Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg, was Count, and from 1654 Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg. During the Thirty Years' War, he was a senior officer. He climbed to the rank of Major Gener…
Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (died 1662)
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim was a German field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. A supporter of the Catholic League, he was mortally wounded duri…
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (died 1632)
Philip II, sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.…
Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to
The Action of Faial or the Battle of Faial Island was a naval engagement that took place on 22–23 June 1594 during the Anglo-Spanish War in which the large and richly laden 2,000-t…
The Action of Faial, Azores
The Portuguese Empire, c. 1415 to 1999, was the first and longest lasting of the European colonial empires. Initiated during the Age of Discovery, at one point territories included…
Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy…
Groningen is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. Dubbed the "capital of the north", Groningen is the largest city as well as the econom…
The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange,…
John Haynes, also sometimes spelled Haines, was a colonial magistrate and one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony. He served one term as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Col…
John Haynes, English-American politician, 1st Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (died 1653)
Thomas Cooper was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer.
Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and theologian (born 1517)
Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted …
Tintoretto, Italian painter and educator (born 1518)
John Aylmer was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.
John Aylmer, English bishop and scholar (born 1521)
Roderigo Lopes was a Portuguese physician who served as a physician-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1581 until his death by execution, having been found guilty of plo…
Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525)
Jacob Kroger, was a German goldsmith who worked for Anne of Denmark in Scotland and stole her jewels.
Jacob Kroger, German goldsmith, hanged in Edinburgh for stealing the jewels of Anne of Denmark
Orlando di Lasso was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lasso stands with William Byrd, Giova…
Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer and educator (born 1532)
Niels Kaas was a Danish politician who served as Chancellor of Denmark from 1573 until his death. He was influential in the negotiation of the Peace of Stettin and in the upbringin…
Niels Kaas, Danish politician, Chancellor of Denmark (born 1535)