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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s Years: 1589 1590 1591 1592 1593 - 1594 - 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 Events February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Rheims. March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time. Births February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark. May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim[?], general. June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter. December 9 - Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, French author. Stephen Marshall, English Nonconformist divine. Deaths February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music. June - John Aylmer, Bishop of London. June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Franco-Flemish composer of religious and secular music. October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal. November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British seaman. December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer. Ferdinando Stanley[?], 5th Earl of Derby. Tintoretto[?], Italian painter. Christina, the second daughter of Charles IX of Sweden and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years: 1589 1590 1591 1592 1593 - 1594 - 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599
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