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 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 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.

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.

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)
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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)
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