1598

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
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1598 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1598 MDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2351
Armenian calendar	1047 ԹՎ ՌԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6348
Balinese saka calendar	1519–1520
Bengali calendar	1005
Berber calendar	2548
English Regnal year	40 Eliz. 1 – 41 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2142
Burmese calendar	960
Byzantine calendar	7106–7107
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4295 or 4088     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4296 or 4089
Coptic calendar	1314–1315
Discordian calendar	2764
Ethiopian calendar	1590–1591
Hebrew calendar	5358–5359
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1654–1655
- Shaka Samvat	1519–1520
- Kali Yuga	4698–4699
Holocene calendar	11598
Igbo calendar	598–599
Iranian calendar	976–977
Islamic calendar	1006–1007
Japanese calendar	Keichō 3 (慶長３年)
Javanese calendar	1518–1519
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3931
Minguo calendar	314 before ROC 民前314年
Nanakshahi calendar	130
Thai solar calendar	2140–2141
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

January 7: Boris Godunov.

September 25: Battle of Stångebro.

Year 1598 (MDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 7 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia, following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I; the Time of Troubles starts.
• April 13 – Edict of Nantes: Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.
• April 30 – Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate holds America's first Thanksgiving celebration
• 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

• August – Battle of the Yellow Ford: The Irish rebellion against English rule gains a victory.
• September 13 – Philip III of Spain starts to rule.
• September 25 – Battle of Stångebro: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.
• Autumn – Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: After being separated from the main Dutch fleet of Admiral Wybrand Van Warwyck, three ships under Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck land on the island which they name Mauritius, after Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, and sight the Dodo.
• December 16 (November 19 (lunar calendar)) – Battle of Noryang: An allied Korean and Chinese fleet under Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin and Chinese Admiral Chen Lin defeats the Japanese navy, ending the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).
• December 21 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spaniards troops in southern Chile; all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s "Pacification of Araucania".

Date unknown

• Pentecost – Calvinist congregations in Zurich introduce music into their services.
• Philosopher Tommaso Campanella organizes an uprising in Calabria against the rule of the Spanish viceroy; he is captured, tortured and sentenced to 27 years in jail.
• The Parliament of England passes an 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.

Births

• April 17 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
• April 23 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
• July 6 – Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1658)
• July 31 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
• August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
• September 23 – Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
• November 7 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• November 28 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
• December 7 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1680)
• date unknown
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647)
  • Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (d. 1661)
  • Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (d. 1682)
  • Jean Nicolet, French explorer (d. 1642)
  • Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French officer (d. 1672)
  • Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)
  • William Strode, English parliamentarian (d. 1645)
  • Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1640)
  • Mary Bankes, a Royalist in the English Civil War, who defended Corfe Castle (d. 1661)
  • Thomas Franklin, grandfather of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin (d. 1681/1682).

Deaths

• January 6 – Tsar Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
• January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1525)
• January 9 – Jasper Heywood, English classicist and translator (b. 1553)
• March 4 or 5 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright (b. 1522)
• April 10 – Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (b. 1548)
• May 3 – Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
• June – Emery Molyneux, English maker of globes and instruments (date of birth unknown)
• June 28 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
• August 4 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
• September 13 – Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)
• September 18 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
• November 19 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (in battle) (b. 1545)
• December 15 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)
• date unknown
  • Abdulla Khan, Uzbek/Turkoman ruler
  • Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (b. 1524)