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1597,
1590s BC,
16th century in literature,
1597 in music,
Category:1597,
1000 (number),
Talk:1597,
Battle of Turnhout (1597),
List of state leaders in 1597,
Category:1597 births
Years: 1594 1595 1596 -
1597 -
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1597 was a
common year starting on Wednesday of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events
*
17 January - A court case in Guildford recorded evidence that a certain plot of land was used for playing “kreckett” (i.e.,
cricket) as early as
1550.
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January 24 -
Battle of Turnhout.
Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands
*
February 5 - In
Nagasaki, Japan, 26 people were
martyred. They practiced
Catholicism and were taken captive after all forms of
Christianity were outlawed the previous year.
* The first
opera is considered to have been written.
*
Bali discovered by the Dutch explorer
Cornelis Houtman*
Abbas I ends the
Uzbek raids on his lands.
*
Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel as Emperor of
Ethiopia* First edition of
Francis Bacon's
Essays published.
Births
*
January 31 -
John Regis, French saint (d.
1640)
*
February 24 -
Vincent Voiture, French poet (died
1648)
*
March 1 -
Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (died
1652)
*
April 9 -
John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d.
1670)
*
August 21 -
Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d.
1672)
*
December 23 -
Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died
1639)
*
Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer (died
1676)
*
Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch poet (died
1656)
*
Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (died
1641)
*
Giovanni Batista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (died
1660)
*
Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant and director general of New Netherland (died
1647)
*
Wang Wei, Chinese poet (died
1647)
See also :Category:1597 births.Deaths
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January 29 -
Elias Ammerbach, German organist (born
1530)
*
February 5 -
Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint (born
1564)
*
March 11 - Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer
*
June 20 -
Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer (born c
1550)
*
October 4 -
Sarsa Dengel,
Emperor of Ethiopia (born
1550)
*
October 9 -
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (born
1537)
*
December 21 -
Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (born
1521)
*
James Burbage, English actor
*
Luis Frois, Portuguese missionary (born
1532)
*
William Hunnis, English poet
*
José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born
1534)
*
Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (born
1555)
*
Thomas Nevile, English educator
*
Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born
1529)
*
Rana Pratap Singh, Indian statesman (born
1540)
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