History
1599
General
Population: 540 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Mataeo Aleman (picturesque novel), George Peele (David and Bathsheba play - posthumous), Shakespeare Julius Caesar As You Like It and Twelfth Night,
James VI of Scotland (divine right of kings),
- Science: Ulissi Aldrovandi publishes study on ornithology
- Deaths: Italian tragic heroine Beatrice Cenci age 22, Composer Luca Marencio,
Europe
- England: Globe theater starts to be built in London
- France: Duke of Sully the French superintendent of finances reforms taxation economics trade and agriculture
Henry IV of France obtains divorce from Margaret of Valois
First chamber of commerce created in Marsaielles
- German States: Agreement of Gera between branches of Hohenzollern family concerning mutual succession
Postal rates first fixed
- Ireland: Earl of Essex made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland – signs truce with Irish rebel Lord Tyrone and arrested on return to England after rebels defeat him
- Poland: Confederation of Vilna – alliance formed between Orthodox and Dissidents
- Sweden: Swedish Diet deposes Sigismund III and proclaims Charles of Sodermanland ruler as Charles IX
- Spain: Plague outbreak