Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1590 Henry IV defeats
Catholic forces at Ivry;
Paris besieged

1594 Philip II of Spain
closes port of Lisbon to
Dutch ships

1595 O’Neill’s revolt in
Ireland; Houtman
explores trade routes to
Asia; Raleigh explores
Guiana
1596 Sack of Cádiz;
Barents overwinters in
Arctic
1598 Ferrara passes to
papacy; southern
Netherlands handed over
to Archdukes Albert and
Isabella

1600 English East India
Company granted charter

1602 Dutch East India
Company granted charter

1605 Gunpowder Plot

1609 Twelve-year truce
agreed between
Netherlands and Spain

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1590 Urban VII pope;

Gregory XIV pope

1591 Innocent IX pope

1592 Clement VIII pope

1593 Henry IV of France

converts to Catholicism;

Swedes accept Lutheran

catechism

1594 First four books of

Hooker’s Lawes of

Ecclesiasticall Politie

published

1598 Edict of Nantes

1602 Piarists founded

1604 Hampton Court

Conference

1605 Leo XI pope; Paul V

pope

1609 Rudolf II grants

concessions to Bohemia

Protestants under Letter

of Majesty

1610 Arminian

Remonstrance

1589 Death of Catherine

de’ Medici; Henry of

Navarre (Henry IV) first

Bourbon king of France

(→1610)

1598 Philip III king of

Spain (→1621)

1600 Henry IV of France

marries Marie de’ Medici

1603 James I (VI of

Scotland) first Stuart king

of England (→1625)

1608 Emperor Rudolf II

forced to cede Hungary

to Matthias

1610 Louis XIII king of

France (→1643) with

Marie de’ Medici as

regent

1589 First edition of

Hakluyt’s compilation of

voyages published

c. 1594 Davis invents

backstaff

1599 Tycho Brahe settles

in Prague

1605 Bacon’s The

Advancement of Learning

published

1608 First mention of

telescope

1609 Kepler’s Astronomia

Nova published; Galileo

constructs astronomical

telescope

1610 Galileo’s Sidereus

nuncius published

1589 Guarini’s II pastor

fido published

1590 Sidney’s The

Countesse of Pembroke’s

Arcadia and first three

books of Spenser’s Faerie

Queene published

1593 Louis Elzevir

publishing at Leyden

1599 First part of

Alemán’s Guzmán de

Alfarache published

1604 Van Mander’s Het

Schilderboeck published

1605 First part of

Cervantes’ Don Quixote

published

1607 Monteverdi’s Orfeo

performed

1610 Rubens’s The

Raising of the Cross

painted

1590

1600

1610