1599

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Year 1599 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1599

January 31 - During an observation of the lunar eclipse, Tycho Brahe discovers that his predictive theory about the movement of the Moon is wrong since the eclipse started 24 minutes before his calculations predicted: he improves on his theory.
March 12 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth I of England.
March 21 - Tycho sends a letter to Longomontanus, in which he reports his revised theory.
April 23 - The Earl of Essex arrives in Dublin at the head of 16,000 troops, the largest army ever seen in Ireland.
May 29 - Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.
June - Tycho Brahe is offered shelter in Bohemia, where he obtains residence at the castle of Benatký; the castle was recently bought by the Emperor Rudolf II.
June 14 - Tycho leaves Wittenberg and moves to Bohemia.

July 22 - Tycho observes a solar eclipse from Prague.
August 15 - First Battle of Curlew Pass won by Irish forces.
August 20 - Tycho moves in at Benatký, 40 km (25 miles) NE of Prague.
September 28 - The Earl of Essex arrives back in England, disobeying the Queen's strict orders.
October - Tycho receives a letter from Eske Bille in which he is told that his house in Farvergade, Copenhagen, cannot be sold.
December 31 - The British East India Company sets sail for India.

The Jesuit educational plan known as the Ratio Studiorum is issued (January 8).
Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden.
First reported performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in London.
Shakespeare drafts his renowned play, Hamlet.
The Globe Theatre opens in London.
First Capuchin friar is entombed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo.

February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)
March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (died 1641)
March 28 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (died 1658)
April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1658)
June 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1660)
August 14 - Méric Casaubon, English classicist (died 1671)
September 20 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss sculptor and architect (died 1667)
October 31 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (died 1680)
November 11 - Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (died 1656)
date unknown
- John Alden, English settler of Plymouth Colony (died 1687)
- Robert Blake, English admiral (died 1657)
- Stefan Czarniecki, Polish military commander (died 1665)
- Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (died 1684)
- Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (died 1660)

See also Category:1599 births.

January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet (born 1552)
January 22 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (born 1547)
February 8 - Robert Rollock, first principal of the university of Edinburgh (born 1555)
April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of King Henry IV of France (born 1571)
April 14 - Henry Wallop, English statesman (born c1540)
April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1538)
August - Cornelis de Houtman, Dutch explorer (born 1565)
August 22 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (born 1577)
August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (born 1553)
November 7 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (born 1546)
November 8 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born 1528)
December 14 – Joan Boyle, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (born 1568)
date unknown
- Kwon Yul, Korean military commander (born 1537)
- Koriki Masanaga, Japanese military commander (born 1558)
- Chand Bibi, Indian woman warrior, killed by her own troops (born 1550)