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1591 state leaders
Events
June
- Capture of
Zutphen
by the Dutch under
Maurice of Nassau
.
July
- Capture of
Deventer
by the Dutch under
Maurice of Nassau
.
August
-
September
- Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the
Duke of Parma
near
Arnhem
.
September 14
- Capture of
Hulst
by Maurice.
October 21
- Capture of
Nijmegen
by Maurice.
October 29
-
Pope Innocent IX
succeeds
Pope Gregory XIV
.
Russia
, Murder of Dimitri, son of the Tsar.
Russia
,
Boris Godunov
is elected Tsar.
The city of
Hyderabad
is founded by Quli Quub Shah.
Moroccan
invaders sack
Timbuktu
- many scholars are taken to north by force.
Births
March 15
-
Alexandre de Rhodes
,
French
Jesuit
missionary
.
August 24
-
Robert Herrick
, English poet.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
,
Italian
painter.
Isabella, daughter of
Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy
, wife of Alphonso of
Este
, duke of
Modena
.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
.
Frances Howard
, initially married to the 3rd Earl of Essex and later to the
Earl of Somerset
.
Andrew Bobola
,
Jesuit
missionary
and
martyr
.
Deaths
July 18
-
Jacobus Gallus Carniolus
,
Slovene
composer
October 16
-
Pope Gregory XIV
December 14
-
Saint John of the Cross
,
Spanish
mystic
(b.
1542
)
December 30
-
Pope Innocent IX
Christian I - Elector of Saxony
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