1591

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s

Years: 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596

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

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.
• Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.

Deaths

• July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovene composer.
• December 30 - Pope Innocent IX.
• Pope Gregory XIV.
• Christian I., Elector of Saxony
• Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic.