1598

Year 1598 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1598

January - June

* January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia, following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I; the Time of Troubles starts.

* April 13 - Edict of Nantes: Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.
* April 30 - Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate holds America's first Thanksgiving celebration
* May - Tycho Brahe's star catalogue listing the positions of 1,004 stars is published.
* May 2 - The Peace of Vervins ends the war between France and Spain.

July - December

* August - Battle of the Yellow Ford: The Irish rebellion against English rule gains a victory.
* September 25 - Battle of Stångebro: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles Albert. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.

* November 19 - (lunar calendar) Battle of Noryang Point: The Koreans defeat the Japanese navy, ending the Seven-Year War.
* December 16 - Battle of Noryang Point: the Koreans are victorious over Japan.
* December 21 - Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spaniards troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".

Undated

* Philosopher Tommaso Campanella organizes an uprising in Calabria against the rule of the Spanish viceroy; he is captured and sentenced to 27 years in jail.
* The Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
* Illustrations of Ottoman Turkish and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book "Shenqipu" in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China.
* Philip III of Spain starts to rule.

Births

* April 17 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
* April 23 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
* July 31 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
* August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
* September 23 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
* November 7 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
* November 28 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
* December 7 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1680)
*"date unknown"
**Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647)
**Ralph Hopton, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1652)
**Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1658)
**Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (d. 1661)
**Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (d. 1682)
**Jean Nicolet, French explorer (d. 1642)
**Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French officer (d. 1672)
**Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)
**William Strode, English parliamentarian (d. 1645)
**Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1640)

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Deaths

* January 6 - Tsar Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
* January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1525)
* January 9 - Jasper Heywood, English classicist and translator (b. 1553)
* May 3 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
* June - Emery Molyneux, English maker of globes and instruments (date of birth unknown)
* June 28 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
* August 4 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
* September 13 - Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)
* September 18 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
* November 19 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (in battle) (b. 1545)
* December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (born 1538)
*"date unknown"
**Abdulla Khan, Uzbek/Turkoman ruler
**Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (b. 1548)
**Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (b. 1524)

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