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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
- March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary.
- August 24 - Robert Herrick, English poet.
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter.
- Isabella, daughter of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy, wife of Alphonso of Este, duke of Modena.
- Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.
- Frances Howard, initially married to the 3rd Earl of Essex and later to the Earl of Somerset.
- Andrew Bobola, Jesuit missionary and martyr.
Deaths
- July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovene composer
- October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV
- December 14 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic (b. 1542)
- December 30 - Pope Innocent IX
- Christian I - Elector of Saxony
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