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Year 1598 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1598
January - June
April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. Considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.
April 30 - Spanish conquistador, Don Juan de Oñate held America's First Thanksgiving celebration in present day El Paso, Texas
May 2 - Peace of Vervins - End of war between France and Spain.
May - Tycho Brahe's star catalogue listing the positions of 1004 stars is published.
July - December
August - Irish rebellion against the English rule - rebel victory at the Battle of the Yellow Ford.
September 25 - Battle of Stångebro. The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles Albert. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.
November 19 End of the Seven-Year War. The Koreans defeat the Japanese navy in the Battle of Noryang Point.
December 16 - Battle of Noryang Point: the Koreans are victorious over Japan.
Undated
Philosopher Tommaso Campanella organizes an uprising in Calabria against the rule of Spanish viceroy - he's captured and sentenced for 27 years in jail.
Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
Births
April 17 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (died 1671)
April 23 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (died 1653)
July 31 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (died 1654)
August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (died 1672)
September 23 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1655)
November 7 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (died 1664)
November 28 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (died 1667)
December 7 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (died 1680)
date unknown
- Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (died 1647)
- Ralph Hopton, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (died 1652)
- Kirsten Munk, Second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (died 1658)
- Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (died 1661)
- Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (died 1682)
- Jean Nicolet, French explorer (died 1642)
- Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (died 1672)
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)
- William Strode, English parliamentarian (died 1645)
- Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1640)
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Deaths
January 6 - Tsar Feodor I of Russia (born 1557)
January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (born 1525)
January 9 - Jasper Heywood, English classicist and translator (born 1553)
May 3 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (born 1563)
June 28 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (born 1527)
August 4 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
September 13 - Philip II of Spain (born 1526)
September 18 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (born 1536)
November 19 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (killed in battle) (born 1545)
December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (born 1538)
date unknown
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