1599

Year 1599 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1599

January - June

* January 8 - The Jesuit educational plan known as the "Ratio Studiorum" is issued.
* March 12 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
* April 23 - The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.
* May 29 - Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.

July - December

* July 24 - The Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.
* August 15 - First Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces defeat the English.
* September 21 - The first performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter.
* September 28 - The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.

Undated

* The Globe Theatre opens in London.
* The first Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo.
* A Dutch fleet returns to Amsterdam, carrying 600,000 pounds of pepper and 250,000 pounds of cloves and nutmeg.

Births

* February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667)
* March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (d. 1641)
* March 28 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (d. 1658)
* April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1658)
* June 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (d. 1660)
* August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (d. 1671)
* September 20 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
* September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (d. 1667)
* October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
* November 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (d. 1656)
*"date unknown"
**John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (d. 1687)
**Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)
**Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (d. 1665)
**Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (d. 1684)
**Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (d. 1660)

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Deaths

* January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
* January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
* February 8 - Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (b. 1555)
* April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
* April 14 - Henry Wallop, English statesman (b. c. 1540)
* April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1538)
* August - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (b. 1565)
* August 22 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (b. 1577)
* August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553)
* November 7 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
* November 8 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
* December 14 – Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (b. 1568)
*"date unknown"
** Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (b. 1537)
** Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (b. 1558)
** Chand Bibi, Indian woman warrior (by her own troops) (b. 1550)

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