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1599 (MDXCIX) 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

Shakespeare.

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.
• June 20 – The Synod of Diamper is convened.

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 the Younger.
• September 28 – The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.
• November – A Persian embassy arrives in Moscow.

Undated

Globe Theatre (remade).

• 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. 1626)
• 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)

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)
  • 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)
  • Kōriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (b. 1558)
  • Chand Bibi, Indian woman warrior (by her own troops) (b. 1550)

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4 people were born in 1599

1 children were born to the 1 women born in 1599

2 people died in 1599

314 people lived in 1599

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5 people were married in 1599.

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