• Philosopher Tommaso Campanella organizes an uprising in Calabria against the rule of the Spanish viceroy; he is captured and sentenced to 27 years in jail.
• The Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
• Illustrations of Ottoman Turkish and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book Shenqipu in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China.
• Philip III of Spain starts to rule.

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Births

1598 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1598 MDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2351
Armenian calendar	1047 ԹՎ ՌԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-246 – -245
Berber calendar	2548
Buddhist calendar	2142
Burmese calendar	960
Chinese calendar	4234/4294-11-24 (丁酉年十一月廿四日) — to — 4235/4295-12-4 (戊戌年十二月初四日)
Coptic calendar	1314 – 1315
Ethiopian calendar	1590 – 1591
Hebrew calendar	5358 – 5359
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1653 – 1654
- Shaka Samvat	1520 – 1521
- Kali Yuga	4699 – 4700
Holocene calendar	11598
Iranian calendar	976 – 977
Islamic calendar	1006 – 1007
Japanese calendar	Keichō 3 (慶長3年)
Korean calendar	3931
Thai solar calendar	2141
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• April 17 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (d. 1671)
• April 23 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
• July 31 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (d. 1654)
• August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672)
• September 23 - Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
• November 7 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
• November 28 - Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)
• December 7 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1680)
• date unknown
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician (d. 1647)
  • Ralph Hopton, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. 1652)
  • Kirsten Munk, second wife of Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1658)
  • Marmaduke Langdale, Royalist in the English Civil War (d. 1661)
  • Baldassarre Longhena, Venetian architect (d. 1682)
  • Jean Nicolet, French explorer (d. 1642)
  • Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French officer (d. 1672)
  • Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)
  • William Strode, English parliamentarian (d. 1645)
  • Åke Henriksson Tott, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1640)

See also Category:1598 births.

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Deaths

• January 6 - Tsar Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
• January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia (b. 1525)
• January 9 - Jasper Heywood, English classicist and translator (b. 1553)
• May 3 - Anna Guarini, Italian singer (b. 1563)
• June - Emery Molyneux, English maker of globes and instruments (date of birth unknown)
• June 28 - Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
• August 4 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
• September 13 - Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)
• September 18 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
• November 19 - Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader (in battle) (b. 1545)
• December 15 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (born 1538)
• date unknown
  • Abdulla Khan, Uzbek/Turkoman ruler
  • Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher (b. 1548)
  • Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author (b. 1524)

See also Category:1598 deaths.

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