1598

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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Years:
  • 1595
  • 1596
  • 1597
  • 1598
  • 1599
  • 1600
  • 1601
1598 by topic
Arts and science
Leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1598 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1598
MDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita2351
Armenian calendar1047
ԹՎ ՌԽԷ
Assyrian calendar6348
Balinese saka calendar1519–1520
Bengali calendar1005
Berber calendar2548
English Regnal year40 Eliz. 1 – 41 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2142
Burmese calendar960
Byzantine calendar7106–7107
Chinese calendar丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4294 or 4234
    — to —
戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4295 or 4235
Coptic calendar1314–1315
Discordian calendar2764
Ethiopian calendar1590–1591
Hebrew calendar5358–5359
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1654–1655
 - Shaka Samvat1519–1520
 - Kali Yuga4698–4699
Holocene calendar11598
Igbo calendar598–599
Iranian calendar976–977
Islamic calendar1006–1007
Japanese calendarKeichō 3
(慶長３年)
Javanese calendar1518–1519
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3931
Minguo calendar314 before ROC
民前314年
Nanakshahi calendar130
Thai solar calendar2140–2141
Tibetan calendar阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1724 or 1343 or 571
    — to —
阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
1725 or 1344 or 572
April 13: The Edict of Nantes is signed.
September 25: Battle of Stångebro

1598 (MDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1598th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 598th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 16th century, and the 9th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1598, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • February 21 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia, following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I; the Time of Happiness starts.
  • April 13 – Edict of Nantes (promulgated April 30): Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.[1]
  • May – Tycho Brahe's star catalogue Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica, listing the positions of 1,004 stars, is published.
  • May 2 – The Peace of Vervins ends the war between France and Spain.

July–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Carnival – Jacopo Peri's Dafne, the earliest known modern opera, is premièred at the Palazzo Corsini, Florence.[5]
  • Pentecost – Calvinist congregations in Zürich introduce music into their services.[6]
  • The Parliament of England passes the Vagabonds 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.
  • The Spanish establish themselves in El Piñal, a trading port on the coast of China in the Pearl River Delta.[7]
  • New Mexico is founded as the Kingdom of Nuevo México as part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Kingdom eventually became a territory of Mexico, later the New Mexico Territory in the United States, and then the U.S. State of New Mexico.

Births[]

Maarten Tromp
Gian Lorenzo Bernini

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647)
  • Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (d. 1661)
  • Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (d. 1682)[9]
  • Jean Nicolet, French explorer (d. 1642)
  • William Strode, English parliamentarian (d. 1645)[10]
  • Guðríður Símonardóttir, Icelandic woman known as a victim of the Turkish abductions (d. 1682)
  • probable

Deaths[]

Tsar Feodor I of Russia
King Philip II of Spain
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Yi Sun-sin
  • January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1525)
  • January 9 – Jasper Heywood, English Jesuit classicist and translator (b. 1553)
  • January 16 – Tsar Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)[11]
  • February 10 – Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (b. 1573)
  • March 4 or March 5 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (b. 1522)
  • March 28 – Michele Bonelli, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1541)
  • April 8 – Ludwig Helmbold, German classical singer (b. 1532)
  • April 10 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (b. 1548)
  • April 19
  • May 3 – Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
  • May 18 – Philipp of Bavaria, German Catholic cardinal (b. 1576)
  • June – Emery Molyneux, English maker of globes and instruments (date of birth unknown)
  • June 28 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
  • June 25 – Giacomo Gaggini, Italian artist (b. 1517)
  • August 4 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)[12]
  • August 9 – Andreas Angelus, German pastor, teacher, chronicler of the Mark of Brandenburg (b. 1561)
  • September 13 – Philip II of Spain (b. 1527)[13]
  • September 18 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1537)
  • October 11 – Joachim Camerarius the Younger, German scientist (b. 1534)
  • November 12 – Johannes Schenck von Grafenberg, German physician (b. 1530)
  • December 6 – Paolo Paruta, Italian historian (b. 1540)[14]
  • December 15 – Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)[15]
  • December 16 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (b. 1545)
  • December 31 – Heinrich Rantzau, German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer (b. 1526)
  • date unknown

References[]

  1. ^ Scott M. Manetsch (2000). Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France: 1572 - 1598. BRILL. p. 332. ISBN 90-04-11101-8.
  2. ^ Tommaso Campanella (March 30, 2011). Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition. University of Chicago Press. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-226-09205-8.
  3. ^ Harry S. Ashmore (1962). Encyclopaedia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 279.
  4. ^ Turnbull, Stephen (2002). Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-35948-6.
  5. ^ Ottavio Rinuccini's libretto survives complete but only fragments of the music are known.
  6. ^ MacCulloch, Diarmaid (2013). Silence: A Christian History. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9781846144264.
  7. ^ Denis Crispin Twitchett; John King Fairbank; Frederick W. Mote (1978). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. pp. 349–. ISBN 978-0-521-24333-9.
  8. ^ Rudolf Wittkower (1981). Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. Cornell University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-8014-1430-5.
  9. ^ Ronald Shaw-Kennedy (1978). Venice Rediscovered. Associated University Presse. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-8453-1484-5.
  10. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Strode, William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1040.
  11. ^ Perrie, Maureen (1995). Pretenders and popular monarchism in early modern Russia: the false tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780521472746.
  12. ^ Christopher Maginn (March 15, 2012). William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State. OUP Oxford. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-19-969715-1.
  13. ^ Fernand Braudel (1995). The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II: Volume II. University of California Press. p. 1234. ISBN 978-0-520-20330-3.
  14. ^ The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip. Appleton. 1911. p. 510.
  15. ^ May King; David Leer Ringo; William K. Barnarad (2001). Supplemental research and history (volume XIV). McDowell Publications for the Freeborn Family Association. p. 24.
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