Years: 1587 1588 1589 - 1590 - 1591 1592 1593

Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1590 state leaders

Events

• March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne.
• May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by Henry IV of France. Henry is forced to raise the siege when the Duke of Parma comes to its relief with a Spanish army.
• May 17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned queen of Scotland.
• August 18 - John White, the governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
• September 15 - Pope Urban VII succeeds Sixtus V.
• December 5 - Pope Gregory XIV succeeds Urban VII.
• Coptic Pope Gabriel VIII succeeds Yoannis XIV .
• Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Meletius I succeeds Silvester .
• Japan is united by Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Births

• April 18 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (d. 1617)
• May 12 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
• July 13 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
• August 19 - (christened) Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English nobleman
• William Bradford, leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
• Gerald van Honthorst, painter
• Simon Vouet, painter
• Richard Zouch, English jurist (d. 1661)

Deaths

• April 6 - Francis Walsingham, English spy
• July 10 - Archduke Charles II of Austria, Regent of Inner Austria
• August 27 - Pope Sixtus V
• September 27 - Pope Urban VII
• Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter.
• Per Brahe, Gustavus Vasa Privy Councillor.