1597
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| Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
| Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s |
| Years: | 1594 1595 1596 - 1597 - 1598 1599 1600 |
| 1597 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
- For other uses, see: 1597 (number).
Year 1597 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1597
[edit] January - June
- January 17 - A court case in Guildford recorded evidence that a certain plot of land was used for playing “kreckett” (i.e., cricket) as early as 1550.
- January 24 - Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands
- February 5 - In Nagasaki, Japan, 26 people were martyred. They practiced Catholicism and were taken captive after all forms of Christianity were outlawed the previous year.
- February 8 - Sir Anthony Shirley, England's "best-educated pirate", raids Jamaica.
- March 11 - Amiens is taken by Spanish forces.
- March 15 - Tycho Brahe's last observation is recorded from Ven.
- March 18 - Tycho Brahe's stipend is stopped.
- March 21 - All books on Ven are now registered.
- March 29 - Tycho Brahe leaves Ven and moves to Copenhagen (Farvergården).
- April 4 - Christian Friis and Axel Brahe go to Ven to check complaints, and a commission is established to investigate Tycho Brahe's leadership.
- April 22 - The vicar on Ven is dismissed; he had followed Tycho's orders not to perform an exorcism.
- April 27 - Johannes Kepler marries Barbara Muhleck.
- June 1 Tycho writes a recommendation supporting Longomontanus who is planning to study in Germany.
- June 2 - The mathematics professor Thomas Fincke reports that instruments on Ven are useless.
- June - Tycho Brahe is not allowed to make observations from The Watermill Tower, and he is not allowed to perform chemical experiments at his house in Farvergade.
- June 2 - Tycho leaves Copenhagen and goes to Rostock.
- June 10 - Tycho is removed from his job working at Epiphany Chapel in Roskilde.
[edit] July - December
- July - The Isle of Dogs, a play now lost, was written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson and performed at the Swan Theatre.
- July 10 - Tycho Brahe's famous letter to the king Christian IV is sent from Rostock.
- July 14 - Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
- August 13 - Beginning of the Siege of Namwon.
- August 17 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
- August 24 - Christian IV of Denmark refuses to let Tycho Brahe return to Denmark.
- August 28 - Battle of Chilcheollyang: a naval battle in which the Japanese fleet defeat the Koreans. It was the only Japanese naval victory in the Imjin War.
- September - Tycho Brahe leaves Rostock, where plague is spreading, and he travels to Wandsbæk.
- October - John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.
- October 20 - Tycho starts new observations in Wandsbæk, where he writes his famous elegy.
- October 26 - Battle of Myeongnyang: a victory for the Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, over the Japanese.
- December 15 - Johannes Kepler writes a letter to Tycho about his book, Mysterium Cosmographicum.
- December 31 - Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.
[edit] Undated
- Jacopo Peri writes Dafne, now recognised as the first opera.
- Bali is discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman.
- Abbas I ends the Uzbek raids on his lands.
- Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel as Emperor of Ethiopia.
- First edition of Francis Bacon's Essays is published.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1597 MDXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2350 |
| Armenian calendar | 1046 ԹՎ ՌԽԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -247 – -246 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2141 |
| Chinese calendar | 4233/4293-11-14 (丙申年十一月十四日) — to —
4234/4294-11-23(丁酉年十一月廿三日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1589 – 1590 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5357 – 5358 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1652 – 1653 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1519 – 1520 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4698 – 4699 |
| Holocene calendar | 11597 |
| Iranian calendar | 975 – 976 |
| Islamic calendar | 1005 – 1006 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 2 (慶長2年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2257 (皇紀2257年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11597 |
| Julian calendar | 1642 |
| Korean calendar | 3930 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2140 |
- January 31 - John Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
- February 24 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (died 1648)
- March 1 - Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (died 1652)
- April 9 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
- April 13 - Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (died 1660)
- August 21 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
- September - Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant and director general of New Netherland (died 1647)
- December 23 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died 1639)
- date unknown
- Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer (died 1676)
- Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch poet (died 1656)
- Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (died 1641)
- Wang Wei, Chinese poet (died 1647)
- See also Category:1597 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (born 1530)
- February 5 - Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint (born 1564)
- February 6 - Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)
- March 11 - Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer
- June 6 - William Hunnis, English poet
- June 9 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)
- June 20 - Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer (born c1550)
- October 4 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1550)
- October 9 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (born 1537)
- December 21 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (born 1521)
- date unknown
- James Burbage, English actor
- Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (born 1532)
- Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (born 1555)
- Pratap Singh, Maharana of Mewar, Indian statesman (born 1540)
- See also Category:1597 deaths.
