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| Years: 1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594 | |
| Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1591 state leaders | |
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.
- Russia, Murder of Dimitri, son of the Tsar.
- 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.
Births
- January 11 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (died 1646)
- February 25 - Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet
- March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (died 1660)
- July 17 - 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)
- Andrzej Bobola, 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
- 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)
Deaths
- Christian I, Elector of Saxony
- April 21 - Sen no Rikyu, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (born 1522)
- June 21 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (born 1568)
- July 2 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lutenist (born 1520)
- July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovenian composer (born 1550)
- August 23 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (born 1527)
- October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV (born 1535)
- November 20 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (born 1540)
- December 14 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic (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)
- Richard Grenville, Elizabethan sailor (born 1542)
- Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman
- Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian tsarevich
- John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (born 1543)af:1591
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