1591

Years:
1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594
Decades:
1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries:
15th century - 16th century - 17th century
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.

January 11 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (died 1646)
January 12 - Giuseppe Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652)
February 25 - Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (d. 1635)
March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (died 1660)
June 16 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)
July 17 - Anne Hutchinson, English puritan preacher (died 1643)
August 24 - Robert Herrick, English poet (died 1674)
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter (died 1666)
David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (died 1655)
Andrew Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary and martyr (died 1657)
Andrzej Bobola, Jesuit missionary and martyr (died 1657)
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist (died 1655)
Girard Desargues, French mathematician (died 1661)
Thomas Goffe, English dramatist
William Lenthall, English politician of the Civil War period (died 1662)
Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary to China (died 1666)
Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset (died 1632)

See also @ 1591 births.

April 21 - Sen no Rikyu, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (born 1522)
May 15 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)
June 21 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (born 1568)
July 2 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (born 1520)
July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovenian composer (born 1550)
August 23 - Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (born 1527)
September 10 - Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542)
October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV (born 1535)
November 20 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (born 1540)
December 14 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (born 1542)
December 30 - Pope Innocent IX (born 1519)
Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (born 1523)
Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros (born 1575)
John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (born 1509)
Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman
Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian tsarevich
John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (born 1543)

See also @ 1591 deaths.