1590



Year 1590 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - The Cortes of approve a new subsidy, the "millones".
 * March -, takes by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat to get through the impregnable defences.
 * -, a chaplain of Queen , preaches an outspoken sermon in her presence.
 * - : again defeats the forces of the  under the.
 * May - August - Unsuccessful siege of Paris by . Henry is forced to raise the siege when the comes to its rescue with a Spanish army.
 * - is crowned queen of Scotland.

July - December

 * -, the governor of the , returns from a supply-trip to and finds his settlement deserted.


 * - succeeds  as the 228th ; he dies of  twelve days later.
 * - succeeds  as the 229th.
 * - is questioned by King  and confesses to practising.

Undated

 * Patriarch of Alexandria succeeds.
 * is united by.
 * The are pushed out of southern  by the Dutch forces.

Births

 * -, French painter (died )
 * -, English noblewoman (died )
 * -, Spanish and Portuguese historian and poet (died )
 * -, (died )
 * May - (died )
 * -, Polish noble (died )
 * - (died )
 * - (died )
 * -, Polish–German theologian (died )
 * -, English soldier (d. )
 * date unknown
 * , English leader of Plymouth Colony (died )
 * , Dutch logician (died )
 * , French landscaper (died )
 * , merchant (died )
 * , French soldier (died )
 * , one of the founders of the colony (later the state) of Connecticut (died )
 * , Russian statesman and boyar (died )
 * , Japanese adventurer (died )
 * probable
 * , English poet (died )
 * , Irish chronicler (died )
 * (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * , president of Magdalen College, Oxford (born )
 * , Catholic prioress and saint (born )
 * -, Italian music theorist and composer (born )
 * -, French Protestant lawyer and writer (born )
 * -, Japanese lady, 's sister (born )
 * -, English spymaster (born )
 * - French church leader and pretender to the throne (born )
 * -, Japanese warlord(born )
 * -, Japanese warlord(born )
 * - Archduke, regent of Inner Austria (born )
 * , Japanese warlord (born )
 * , Japanese warlord (born ？)
 * - (born )
 * -, Italian composer (born )
 * - (born )
 * -, Dutch politician and theologian (b. )
 * -, French legal expert (born )
 * -, Japanese painter (born )
 * -, Franciscan missionary (born )
 * -, English statesman (born )
 * -, German philologist and poet (born )
 * -, French surgeon (born )
 * date unknown
 * , one of the first Jesuits (born )
 * , Portuguese explorer (born )
 * , British soldier (born )
 * , Irish chieftain (born )
 * , Spanish colonial historian and writer
 * probable
 * , French potter (born )
 * probable
 * , French potter (born )


 * See also .

Fictional 1590

 * 's book  takes place in in 1590.