1597

: ''For other uses, see: 1597 (number).''
Year '1597' was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of 1597

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1597

January - June

★ 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.

★ February 8 - Sir Anthony Shirley, England's "best-educated pirate", raids Jamaica.

★ March 11 - Amiens is taken by Spanish forces.

★ March 18 - Tycho Brahe's stipend is stopped.

★ March 29 - Tycho Brahe leaves Ven and moves to Copenhagen (Farvergården).

★ April 4 - Christian Friis and Axel Brahe go to Ven to check complaints, and a commission is established to investigate Tycho Brahe's leadership.

★ April 22 - The vicar on Ven is dismissed; he had followed Tycho's orders not to perform an exorcism.

★ April 27 - Johannes Kepler marries Barbara Muhleck.

★ June 1 Tycho writes a recommendation supporting Longomontanus who is planning to study in Germany.

★ June - Tycho Brahe is not allowed to make observations from The Watermill Tower, and he is not allowed to perform chemical experiments at his house in Farvergade.

★ June 2 - Tycho leaves Copenhagen and goes to Rostock.

★ June 10 - Tycho is removed from his job working at Epiphany Chapel in Roskilde.

★ June 24 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).

July - December

★ July - ''The Isle of Dogs'', a play now lost, was written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson and performed at the Swan Theatre.

★ July 10 - Tycho Brahe's famous letter to the king Christian IV is sent from Rostock.

★ July 14 - Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.

★ August 13 - Beginning of the Siege of Namwon.

★ August 17 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.

★ August 24 - Christian IV of Denmark refuses to let Tycho Brahe return to Denmark.

★ August 28 - Battle of Chilcheollyang: a naval battle in which the Japanese fleet defeat the Koreans. It was the only Japanese naval victory in the Imjin War.

★ September - Tycho Brahe leaves Rostock, where plague is spreading, and he travels to Wandsbæk.

★ October - John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.

★ October 20 - Tycho starts new observations in Wandsbæk, where he writes his famous elegy.

★ October 26 - Battle of Myeongnyang: a victory for the Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, over the Japanese.

★ December 15 - Johannes Kepler writes a letter to Tycho about his book, ''Mysterium Cosmographicum''.

★ December 31 - Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, ''Mecanica''.

Undated

★ Jacopo Peri writes ''Dafne'', now recognised as the first opera.

★ Bali is 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'' is published.

Births

★ January 31 - John Francis 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)

★ April 13 - Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Italian astronomer (died 1660)

★ August 21 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)

★ September - Willem Kieft, Dutch merchant and director general of New Netherland (died 1647)

★ December 23 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (died 1639)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña, Spanish missionary and explorer (died 1676)

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★ Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch poet (died 1656)

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★ Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer (died 1641)

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★ Wang Wei, Chinese poet (died 1647)
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Deaths

★ January 29 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (born 1530)

★ February 5 - Paul Miki, Japanese Catholic saint (born 1564)

★ February 6 - Franciscus Patricius, Italian philosopher and scientist (born 1529)

★ March 11 - Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer

★ June 6 - William Hunnis, English poet

★ June 9 - José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)

★ June 20 - Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer (born c1550)

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Burbage, English actor

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★ Luís Fróis, Portuguese missionary (born 1532)

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★ Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (born 1555)

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★ Pratap Singh, Maharana of Mewar, Indian statesman (born 1540)
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