1591 - Definition and Overview

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
• December 30 - Pope Innocent IX
• Christian I - Elector of Saxony