1597

1597 (MDXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1597th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 597th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 16th century, and the 8th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1597, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1597 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1597
MDXCVII
Ab urbe condita2350
Armenian calendar1046
ԹՎ ՌԽԶ
Assyrian calendar6347
Balinese saka calendar1518–1519
Bengali calendar1004
Berber calendar2547
English Regnal year39 Eliz. 1  40 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2141
Burmese calendar959
Byzantine calendar7105–7106
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4293 or 4233
     to 
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4294 or 4234
Coptic calendar1313–1314
Discordian calendar2763
Ethiopian calendar1589–1590
Hebrew calendar5357–5358
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1653–1654
 - Shaka Samvat1518–1519
 - Kali Yuga4697–4698
Holocene calendar11597
Igbo calendar597–598
Iranian calendar975–976
Islamic calendar1005–1006
Japanese calendarKeichō 2
(慶長2年)
Javanese calendar1517–1518
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3930
Minguo calendar315 before ROC
民前315年
Nanakshahi calendar129
Thai solar calendar2139–2140
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1723 or 1342 or 570
     to 
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1724 or 1343 or 571
October 26: Battle of Myeongnyang

Events

Andreas Libavius's Alchemia, an early chemistry text, is published.

January–June

July–December

  • c. July – Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson's satirical play The Isle of Dogs is performed at the Swan Theatre in London; it is immediately suppressed by the authorities and no copy survives.
  • July 14 – Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw, after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
  • August 13 – The Siege of Namwon begins in Korea.
  • August 14 – First Dutch Expedition to Indonesia: A Dutch expedition commanded by Cornelis de Houtman returns to Amsterdam, after having successfully reached Java. This achievement opens the Spice trade, which had until then been monopolised by the Portuguese, to the Dutch, who in the next years launch several more expeditions to the Indies.
  • August 17 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
  • August 19 – Rheinberg capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Naussau.
  • August 24Christian IV of Denmark-Norway refuses to let Tycho Brahe return to Denmark.
  • August 28Imjin War: Battle of Chilcheollyang – The Japanese fleet defeats the Koreans, in their only naval victory of the war.[4]
  • September 25 – Amiens is retaken from the Spanish by Anglo-French forces, led by Henry IV of France, after a four-month siege.
  • October – John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.
  • October/November – The 3rd Spanish Armada is dispersed by a storm; a number of Spanish ships are captured off the coasts of Wales, Cornwall and Devon.
  • October 26 – Battle of Myeongnyang: The Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, are victorious over a Japanese invasion fleet.
  • November 12 – Lingen capitulates to forces led by Maurice of Nassau.

Date unknown

  • Abbas I ends the Uzbek raids on his lands.
  • Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel, as Emperor of Ethiopia at the age of 7.
  • Jacopo Peri writes Dafne, now recognised as the first opera.
  • The first edition of Francis Bacon's Essays is published.[5]
  • Andreas Libavius publishes Alchemia, a pioneering chemistry textbook.[6]
  • 12 million pesos of silver cross the Pacific. Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade—Acapulco—shipped out 150,000 to 345,000 kg (4 to 9 million taels) of silver annually from this year to 1602.
  • Tobias Hess corresponds with Simon Studion and agrees with him that the Papacy must fall in 1604.

Births

Henry Gage
Justus Sustermans

January–March

  • January 12 – François Duquesnoy, Flemish Baroque sculptor in Rome (d. 1643)
  • January 25 – Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, German Duke (d. 1639)
  • January 31 – John Francis Regis, French Jesuit priest (d. 1640)
  • February 24 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)[7]
  • March 1 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
  • March 10 – Ercole Gennari, Italian drawer and painter (d. 1658)
  • March 18 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French nobleman, founder of Montreal and an order of nursing Sisters (d. 1659)
  • March 21 – Juan Alonso y Ocón, Spanish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (d. 1656)
  • March 27 – William Hyde, President of English College, Douai (d. 1651)

April–June

  • April 9 – John Davenport, English Puritan clergyman, co-founder of the American colony of New Haven (d. 1670)
  • April 13 – Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (d. 1660)
  • April 23 – Alvise Contarini, Italian diplomat, nobleman (d. 1651)
  • May 13 – Cornelis Schut, Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. 1655)
  • May 15 – Squire Bence, English politician (d. 1648)
  • May 25 – Veit Erbermann, German theologian (d. 1675)
  • May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (d. 1654)
  • June 9 – Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Dutch painter (d. 1665)

July–September

  • July 2 – Theodoor Rombouts, Flemish painter (d. 1637)
  • July 13 – Sebastian Stoskopff, French painter (d. 1657)
  • July 22 – Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer (d. 1646)
  • July 29 – Abdias Treu, German mathematician and academic (d. 1669)
  • August 20
    • Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1685)
    • Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic, Polish poet (d. 1677)
  • August 21 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
  • August 29 – Henry Gage, Royalist officer in the English Civil War (d. 1645)
  • September 23 – Francesco Barberini, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1679)
  • September 28 – Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter (d. 1681)

October–December

  • October 7 – Captain John Underhill, English settler and soldier (d. 1672)
  • October 13 – Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen, Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1634)
  • October 20 – Matthew Hutton, English politician (d. 1666)
  • November 15 – Juan Tellez-Girón y Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna (d. 1656)
  • November 19 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, wife of George William (d. 1660)
  • December 16
    • George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg (d. 1647)
    • Pieter de Neyn, Dutch painter (d. 1639)
  • December 22 – Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1659)
  • December 23
    • Martin Opitz, German poet (d. 1639)
  • December 24 – Honoré II, Prince of Monaco (d. 1662)

Date unknown

  • Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer (d. 1676)
  • Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch poet (d. 1656)
  • Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (d. 1641)
  • Wang Wei, Chinese poet (d. 1647)

Deaths

Edward Kelley
Saint Peter Canisius

date unknown - Margaretha Coppier, Dutch heroine (b. 1516)

References

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  2. Nuijasota – Ilmajoki (in Finnish)
  3. John Hudson Tiner (1999). Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science. Mott Media. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-915134-11-3.
  4. DK (October 1, 2009). War. Dorling Kindersley Limited. p. 403. ISBN 978-1-4053-4778-5.
  5. Lisa Jardine; Professor of Renaissance Studies Lisa Jardine (1974). Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse. Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-521-20494-1.
  6. "From liquid to vapor and back: origins". Special Collections Department. University of Delaware Library. Retrieved March 12, 2007.
  7. The Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Incorporated. 1999. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-7172-0131-0.
  8. Barwolt Sijbrand Ebbinge; P. S. Tomkovich (2000). Heritage of the Russian Arctic: Research, Conservation, and International Co-operation : Proceedings of the International Scientific Willem Barents Memorial Arctic Conservation Symposium, Held in Moscow, Russia, 10-14 March 1998. Ecopros Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-5-88621-057-6.
  9. Saheed A. Adejumobi (2007). The History of Ethiopia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-313-32273-0.
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