History
1597
General
Population: 538 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include John Lyly (play), Thomas Nashe (satirical comedy), Shakespeare Henry IV pars 1 and 2, Sir Francis Bacon (moral essays),
Jean de Serres (French history), James VI of Scotland Demonologie on wichcraft
Art includes El Greco "St. Martin and the Beggar",
Music includes John Dowland "First Booke of Songes", Thomas Morley (introduction to music), ORazio Vecchi,
- Medicine: First field hospitals and field dispensaries
- Technology: Galileo invents the sector
- Deaths: Artist Pellegrino Tebaldi, Architect Juan de Herrara, Composer Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach, Poet Hernando de Herrera, Jesuit Counter-reformationist Peter Canisius
Writer Aldus Manutinus the Younger, Navigator Willem Barents,
Asia
- General: Hideyoshi of Japan resumes Korean campaign - second Japanese invasion of Korea defeated
- Java: Dutch found Batavia on Java
Europe
- General: Second Spanish Armada leaves for England and is scattered by storms
Philip II of Spain opens peace talks with Henry IV of France
- England: Shakespeare buys New Place at Stratford on Avon
English Act of Parliament prescribes sentences of transportation to colonies for convicted criminals
- German States: William V duke of Bavaria abdicates in favor of son Maximilian I – then retires to a monastery
- Holy Roman Empire: Re-Catholicization of Upper Austria effected by force
Aldine Press in Venice ceases publication
English merchants expelled from HRE in retaliation for treatment of the Hanseatic League in London
- Hungary: Sigmund Bathory cedes Transylvania to Emperor Rudolf II
- Ireland: Irish rebellion under Hugh O'Neill Earl of Tyrone – put down in 1601