This article is about the year 1591. Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 15th century – 16th century – 17th century Decades: 1560s  1570s  1580s  – 1590s –  1600s  1610s  1620s Years: 1588 1589 1590 – 1591 – 1592 1593 1594 1591 by topic Arts and science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works v · d · e 1591 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1591 MDXCI Ab urbe condita 2344 Armenian calendar 1040 ԹՎ ՌԽ Bahá'í calendar -253 – -252 Bengali calendar 998 Berber calendar 2541 Buddhist calendar 2135 Burmese calendar 953 Byzantine calendar 7099 – 7100 Chinese calendar 庚寅年十二月初六日 (4227/4287-12-6) — to — 辛卯年十一月十六日 (4228/4288-11-16) Coptic calendar 1307 – 1308 Ethiopian calendar 1583 – 1584 Hebrew calendar 5351 – 5352 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 1647 – 1648  - Shaka Samvat 1513 – 1514  - Kali Yuga 4692 – 4693 Holocene calendar 11591 Iranian calendar 969 – 970 Islamic calendar 999 – 1000 Japanese calendar Tenshō 19 (天正19年) Korean calendar 3924 Thai solar calendar 2134 v · d · e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 1591 May 15: Tsarevich Dimitri dies.

Year 1591 (MDXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar. Events January–June March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi Dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least 5 to 1. May 15 – In Russia, Tsarevich Dimitri, son of the Ivan the Terrible, is found dead in mysterious circumstances, at the palace in Uglich. The official explanation is that he has cut his own throat during an epileptic seizure. Many believe he has been murdered by his rival, Boris Godunov, who becomes tsar. May 24 – Sir John Norreys, with an English expeditionary force sent by Queen Elizabeth I of England, takes the town of Guingamp after a brief siege, on behalf of Henry of Navarre. June – Zutphen is captured by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. July–December July – Deventer is captured by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau. August–September Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the Duke of Parma near Arnhem. During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, probably the most severe of the pre-1600 seasons, at least eight intense hurricanes occur. September 14 – Hulst is captured by Maurice. October 21 – Nijmegen is captured by Maurice. October 29 – Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV as the 230th pope. Date unknown The city of Hyderabad is founded by Quli Quub Shah. Moroccan invaders sack Timbuktu. The Durtnell (Dartnell) family of Brasted, Kent, England, begin to work as building contractors. They will still be functioning under the twelfth generation of the family in the 21st century.1 Births January 11 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646) January 12 – Giuseppe Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652) February 8 – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino), Italian painter (d. 1666) February 21 (or March 2) Girard Desargues, French mathematician (d. 1661) February 25 – Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (d. 1635) March 15 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660) June 16 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655) July – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (d. 1643) August 24 – Robert Herrick, English poet (d. 1674) date unknown David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (d. 1655) Andrew Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1657) Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Cretan author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655) Thomas Goffe, English dramatist (d. 1629) William Lenthall, English politician of the Civil War period (d. 1662) Johann Adam Schall von Bell, German Jesuit missionary to China (d. 1666) Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset (d. 1632) Deaths April 21 – Sen no Rikyu, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (b. 1522) May 1 – Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros, English Noblewoman (b. c. 1574) May 15 – Tsarevich Dimitri, Tsarevich (b. 1582) June 21 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (b. 1568) July 2 – Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520) July 18 – Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550) August 23 – Luis Ponce de León, Spanish lyric poet (b. 1527) August 27 – Katheryn of Berain, Welsh noblewoman (b. 1534) September 10 – Richard Grenville, English soldier and explorer (b. 1542) October 16 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535) October 19 – Juan de Luna y Celdrán, Baron of Purroy, Spanish nobleman November 20 – Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540) December 14 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (b. 1542) December 18 – Marigje Arriens, Dutch woman executed for witchcraft (b. c. 1520) December 30 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519) date unknown Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter (b. 1523) John Erskine of Dun, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1509) Toyotomi Hidenaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 1540) John Stubbs, English pamphleteer (b. 1543) References ^ "R. Durtnell & Sons Ltd - the UK's oldest builder". Durtnell. http://www.durtnell.co.uk/index.html. Retrieved 2010-11-05.