1599
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1599 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] 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.
- The Globe Theatre opens in London.
- First Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo
- First Battle of Curlew Pass won by Irish forces, 15th August
[edit] Births
- 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)
See also Category:1599 births.
[edit] Deaths
- 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 (born c1540)
- 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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