Zie: Wikipedia.
Gebeurtenissen:
Nederland.
Frederik de Houtman wordt in Maleisië gevangengenomen en leert er Maleis.
De tweede expeditie naar Java keert terug in Amsterdam.
Europa.
Einde van het Pools-Litouwse Gemenebest.

Geboren:
22 Maart - Antoon van Dyck, schilder.
25 April - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector van Engeland (r. 1649 - 1653).
6 Juni - Diego Velázquez, Spaans kunstschilder.

Overleden:
Maria van Oranje Dillenburg (zus van Willem de Zwijger en echtgenote van Graaf Willem
van den Bergh) overlijdt in het Huis te Ulft.
Cornelis de Houtman wordt in Maleisië gedood.
1 Maart - Edzard II van Oost-Friesland (1532-1599), graaf van Oost-Friesland.
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1599

See: Wikipedia.
Events:
Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden.
First reported performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in London.

Births:
February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (d. 1667).
March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, painter (d. 1641).
April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1648).
September 25 - Francesco Borromini, Swiss baroque sculptor and architect (d. 1667).
John Alden, English settler of the Plymouth Colony, passenger on the Mayflower (d. 1687).
Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657).

Deaths:
January 28 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547).
April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress to French King, Henri IV (b. 1571).
April 27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1538).
August 22 - Luca Marenzio, Italian composer.
September 11 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (b. 1577).
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1599