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1590

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s

Years: 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 - 1590 - 1591 1592 1593 1594 1595

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne.
• May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to its relief with a Spanish army.
• May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.
• August 18 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
• September 15 - Pope Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V.
• December 5 - Pope Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII.
• Coptic Pope Gabriel VIII succeeds Yoannis XIV.
• Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Meletius I succeeds Silvester.
• Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Births

• April 18 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (+ 1617)
• July 13 - Pope Clement X (+ 1676)
• August 19 - baptize of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English nobleman
• Andrew Bobola, Jesuit missionary and martyr.
• William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
• Gerald van Honthorst, painter.
• Simon Vouet, painter.

Deaths

• August 27 - Pope Sixtus V
• September 27 - Pope Urban VII
• Francis Walsingham, English spy
• Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter.
• Per Brahe, Gustavus Vasa Privy Councillor.

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