1590 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1590?
- March 14, 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
- May 17, 1590 – Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
- August 18, 1590 – John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
- August 30, 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- September 5, 1590 – Alexander Farnese’s army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- September 27, 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
- October 16, 1590 – Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples.
- October 24, 1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the “lost” colonists.
- December 5, 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
Who Were Born In The Year 1590?
- March 18, 1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
- March 19, 1590 – William Bradford, Pilgrim and First Governor of the Plymouth Colony (d. 1657)
- April 18, 1590 – Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
- May 12, 1590 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
- July 13, 1590 – Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
- August 19, 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
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