1599

Events of 1599

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 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 won by Irish forces.
September 21 - First recorded performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at the Globe Theatre in London, reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter.
September 28 - The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.

The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued (January 8).
The Globe Theatre opens in London.
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.

February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)
March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (died 1641)
March 28 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (died 1658)
April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1658)
June 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)
August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
September 20 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (died 1667)
October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
November 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (died 1656)
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January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)
January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (born 1547)
February 8 - Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (born 1555)
April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (born 1571)
April 14 - Henry Wallop, English statesman (born c1540)
April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1538)
August - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565)
August 22 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (born 1577)
August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born 1553)
November 7 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (born 1546)
November 8 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born 1528)
December 14 – Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (born 1568)
date unknown