1598

events

• of the Stalhof in London, an address of the Hanse, is closed.

politics and world happening

• to 2. May becomesclosed of France and Spain the peace of Vervins
• Philipp II. from Spain (1556-1598) and Portugal (1581-1598) 71jährig, its son Philipp III. dies. it after
• the admiral follows van Warwick takes in the Indian ocean an island for the Netherlands inPossession and designates it of Mauritius
• the French king Heinrich IV. signed to 13. April the edict of Nantes

born

• 26. March: Johann Truchsess of Waldburg Zeil, abbott on the Reichenau and cathedral gentleman in Cologne († 1644)
• 11. April: William IV. of Saxonia Weimar, German duke († 1662)
• 17. April: Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer († 1671)
• 23. April: Maarten H. Tromp, Netherlands admiral
• 23. September: Eleonora Gonzaga,youngest daughter of Vincenzo I. Gonzaga, duke of Mantua († 1655)
• 31. October: Franz Albert von Saxonia Lauenburg, important field gentleman in the dreissigjährigen war († 1642)
• 7. December: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and building master († 1680)

• Vincent Voiture, French poet and writer († 1648)

died

• 6. January: Fjodor I., was Zar of Russia from 1584 to 1598 (* 1557)
• 8. January: Johann George, was from 1571 to his death cure prince of Brandenburg (* 1525)
• 25. February: Paul von Eitzen, German theologian and Reformator (* 1521)
• 27. February: Friedrich Dedekind, German writer and theologian (* 1525)
• 8. April: Ludwig Helmbold, lutherischer church song poet (* 1532)
• 31. July: Petrus Albinus, professor in joke mountain and founder of the Saxonian historiography
• 13. September: Philipp II., King of Spain, son by Karl V. (* 1527)
• 18. September: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese field gentleman and politician (* 1537)
• 15. December: Philips van Marnix, Netherlands writer and politician (* 1540)