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2 unusual facts about 1591


Eustace White

A friendly conversation with a fellow traveller led to his arrest in Dorset three years later.

Polydore Plasden

Saint Polydore Plasden, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales (died 1591).


1542 in poetry

June 24 – St. John of the Cross, in Spanish: "San Juan de la Cruz", born "Juan de Yepes Alvarez", (died 1591), Spanish mystic, poet, writer, Carmelite friar and priest, who was a major figure of the Catholic Reformation

Beatrice Bodart-Bailey

Her MA thesis investigated "The Political Significance of the Tea Master Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591)".

Bentheim-Steinfurt

Arnold also founded a successful school in Schüttorf during 1588, which was relocated to Steinfurt in 1591 and taught Latin, law, theology, philosophy and (from 1607) medicine.

Bevil Grenville

Grenville was born near Withiel, west of Bodmin, Cornwall, the son of Sir Bernard Grenville by his wife Elizabeth Bevil, and was a grandson of Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591), the heroic Elizabethan naval captain, explorer, and soldier.

Bhagmati

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah built a city named Bhaganagar in 1591 CE, to honor his love for Bhagmati.

Breeders' Cup trophies

Its original purpose is unknown, but it may have been made as a study for the equestrian statue of Duke Cosimo I of Florence, cast in 1591.

Brian O'Rourke

Brian O'Rourke (in Irish, Brian na Múrtha Ó Ruairc) (1540? – 1591), hereditary lord of West Bréifne in Ireland during the later stages of the Tudor conquest of that country, was proclaimed by the English as a rebel and became the first man extradited within Britain on allegations of crimes committed in Ireland.

Brian Oge O'Rourke

Brian Oge O'Rourke (Irish: Brian óg na samhthach O Ruairc) (died 28 January 1604) was the penultimate king of West Bréifne, from 1591 until his death in 1604.

D'Oliphant

The D'Oliphant, also written as De Oliphant, was commissioned in 1591 by Cornelis van Wijkcool as "boerenbehuizinge" built near Nieuwesluis on the island Voorne.

Diane d'Andoins

-- Countess of Gramont and --> The Countess of Guiche, and called "the beautiful Corisande", she was known for having been a royal mistress of King Henri III of Navarre (the future Henri IV of France) between 1582 and 1591.

Diomedes Cato

In 1591 he wrote music for the wedding of Jan Kostka at Świecie castle; the Kostka family may have been patrons of his, since Stanisław Kostka left him a considerable legacy in 1602.

Early history of Durrus and District

In Hondius map of 1591 the peninsulas of the South West appear, the Durrus river is named Fl.

Edmund Gennings

He and Polydore Plasden were seized by Richard Topcliffe and his officers whilst in the act of saying Mass in the house of Saint Swithun Wells at Gray's Inn in London on 7 November 1591 and was hanged, drawn and quartered outside the same house on 10 December.

Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book

These include: William Byrd, with his Battel suite, dating from at least 1591; Orlando Gibbons; Henry Lawes and his brother William; Robert Johnson; and Nicholas Lanier.

Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray

Lady Margaret Stuart (1591 – 4 August 1639), married firstly as his second wife Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by whom she had issue; and secondly William Monson, Viscount Monson

Erik Juel

Erik Juel, often referred to as Erik Juel to Hundsbæk and Alsted (1591 – 13 February 1657), was a Danish courtier, seignory and Privy Councillor, the father of Admiral Niels Juel and of the politician and diplomat Jens Juel.

Francis Wortley

Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet (1591–1652), poet and Royalist officer in the English Civil War

George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

George William (German: Georg Wilhelm) (6 August 1591 – 25 December 1669), titular Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count of Veldenz and Sponheim was the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1600 until 1669.

Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton

In 1591, he became a Knight of the Shire of Huntingdonshire, settled in Leighton Bromswold and married Katherine, a daughter of Sir Henry Darcy (a previous Knight of the Shire) that year and was knighted by 1597.

Hacket

William Hacket (or Hackett) (died 1591), English puritan and religious fanatic

James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray

Lady Margaret Stuart (1591- 4 August 1639), married firstly as his second wife Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by whom she had issue; and secondly William Monson, Viscount Monson

Johan II of East Frisia

Count Johan II of East Frisia (29 September 1538, Aurich – 29 September 1591, Stickhausen Castle) was a member of the House of Cirksena and from 1561 until his death in 1591 co-regent of the county of East Frisia.

John Wingfield

Returning to England with his wife and newly born child, Wingfield served as master of the ordnance under Sir John Norris in Brittany against the forces of the Catholic League in 1591, and the following year he is mentioned as being in charge of the storehouse at Dieppe.

Joseph Solomon Delmedigo

Joseph Solomon Qandia Delmedigo (also Del Medigo, ישר מקנדיא, Yashar Mi-Qandia or in Italian Jacopo de Candia) (16 June 1591 – 16 October 1655) was a rabbi, author, physician, mathematician, and music theorist.

La Seu d'Urgell Cathedral

The 16th-century composer Joan Brudieu was maestro di capilla of the cathedral from 1548 to 1591.

Marco Bragadino

Marco Bragadino or Marco Bragadini (born ca. 1545 on Cyprus; died 26 April 1591 in Munich, Duchy of Bavaria) was a Venitian confidence man who claimed to be an alchemist.

Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham

Margaret Stuart (or Stewart) (c. 1591 – 4 August 1639) was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray.

Melchior of Doberschütz

His wife, Elizabeth of Doberschütz, was accused of witchcraft for political reasons, and ultimately to hurt him, and was executed in 1591 in Szczecin.

Moreton House

The college is named after Sir Richard Grenville (1541–1591) of the Revenge, British Naval commander, whose family had in later years owned the Moreton Estate.

Nazca

The other version says that it was founded by Viceroy García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete, in 1591.

Nicolas de Thou

On September 21, 1591, he attended the assembly of bishops which declared "null, unjust and suggested by the malice of the enemies of France" Pope Gregory XIV's Bull of Excommunication against Henry of Navarre, and on July 25, 1593, he assisted at Henry IV's abjuration in St.

O'Byrne family

Feagh also helped in the escape of Hugh Roe O'Donnell from Dublin Castle in 1591 and Hugh Roe stayed with O'Byrne at Ballinacor, Glenmalure.

Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison

Before 1591 he had attained the rank of captain, and in the autumn of that year commanded Essex's horse at the siege of Rouen.

Onorio Longhi

Born in Viggiù, Lombardy, Longhi began as assistant for his father, and inherited the latter's commission at his death in 1591.

Paper cartridge

Historians note their use by soldiers of Christian I in 1586, while the Dresden museum has evidence dating their use to 1591, and Capo Bianco writes in 1597 that paper cartridges had long been in use by Neapolitan soldiers.

Peter Petreius

Peersson-Petreius was confident that Tsarevich Dimitri was indeed killed in Uglich in 1591; like Isaac Massa, he condemned Boris Godunov for arranging the murder, yet Persson's story contains an unrealistic scene of an arson in Uglich and Moscow, set up simultaneously to cover up the crime.

Péter Révay

He received his education in Bártfa, Jihlava, probably also in Vienna, and between 1589 and 1591 in Strasbourg, where he was awarded the title of a Master of Philosophy.

Piotr Stoiński

Pierre Statorius (1530–1591), or Piotr Stoiński Sr., French grammarian and theologian

Rashleigh family

Jonathan Rashleigh (4 July 1591 – 1 May 1675), was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1675.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Senigallia

Under Bishop Marco Vigerio Della Rovere (1513) the new cathedral was begun in 1540; it was consecrated in 1595 by Pietro Ridolfi (1591), a learned writer.

Saint Swithun

Saint Swithun Wells, executed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (d.1591)

Simon Baskerville

After receiving a suitable preliminary education, he was sent to Oxford, and matriculated on 10 March 1591 as a member of Exeter College, where he was placed under the care of William Helm, a man famous for his piety and learning.

Thaïs

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) in "What Kind of Mistress He Would Have" concludes, "Let her Lucrece all day be, Thaïs in the night to me, Be she such as neither will, Famish me, nor overfill."

The Troublesome Reign of King John

Q1, 1591, was published by the stationer Sampson Clarke, with no attribution of authorship.

Thomas Lydiat

In 1584, at eleven years of age, he gained a scholarship at Winchester College, and passing thence to New College, Oxford, was elected probationer fellow in 1591, and full fellow two years later.

Timothie Bright

In 1588 he dedicated his treatise Characterie to Queen Elizabeth, who on 5 July 1591 presented him to the rectory of Methley in Yorkshire, then void by the death of Otho Hunt, and on 30 December 1594 to the rectory of Barwick-in-Elmet, in the same county.

William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton

Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and his wife, Margaret Willoughby, and was baptised on 4 January 1591 at Brington, Northamptonshire.


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