1591
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| Years: 1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594 |
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| Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s |
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| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1591 MDXCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2344 |
| Armenian calendar | 1040 ԹՎ ՌԽ |
| Chinese calendar | 4227/4287-12-6 (庚寅年十二月初六日) — to —
4228/4288-11-16(辛卯年十一月十六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1583 – 1584 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5351 – 5352 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1646 – 1647 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1513 – 1514 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4692 – 4693 |
| Iranian calendar | 969 – 970 |
| Islamic calendar | 999 – 1000 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenshō 19 (天正19年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2251 (皇紀2251年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11591 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2134 |
1591 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
[edit] Events
- June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.
- July - Capture of Deventer by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau.
- August - September - Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the Duke of Parma near Arnhem.
- September 14 - Capture of Hulst by Maurice.
- October 21 - Capture of Nijmegen by Maurice.
- October 29 - Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV as the 230th pope.
- Russia, Murder of Tsarevich Dimitri, son of the Ivan the Terrible.
- Russia, Boris Godunov is elected Tsar.
- The city of Hyderabad is founded by Quli Quub Shah.
- Moroccan invaders sack Timbuktu - many scholars are taken to north by force.
[edit] Births
- January 11 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (died 1646)
- January 12 - Giuseppe Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
- February 25 - Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (d. 1635)
- March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (died 1660)
- June 16 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
- July - Anne Hutchinson, English puritan preacher (died 1643)
- August 24 - Robert Herrick, English poet (died 1674)
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter (died 1666)
- David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (died 1655)
- Andrew Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary and martyr (died 1657)
- Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist (died 1655)
- Girard Desargues, French mathematician (died 1661)
- Thomas Goffe, English dramatist (died 1629)
- William Lenthall, English politician of the Civil War period (died 1662)
- Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary to China (died 1666)
- Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset (died 1632)
See also Category:1591 births.
[edit] Deaths
- April 21 - Sen no Rikyu, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (born 1522)
- May 15 - Tsarevich Dimitri, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
- June 21 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (born 1568)
- July 2 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (born 1520)
- July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovenian composer (born 1550)
- August 23 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (born 1527)
- September 10 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
- October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV (born 1535)
- November 20 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (born 1540)
- December 14 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (born 1542)
- December 30 - Pope Innocent IX (born 1519)
- Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (born 1523)
- Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (born 1575)
- John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (born 1509)
- Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman (born 1540)
- John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (born 1543)
See also Category:1591 deaths.
