Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years: 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 - 1591 - 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596
Events June - Capture of Zutphen by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau July - Capture of Deventer by the Dutch under Maurice of Nassau August - September - Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the Duke of Parma near Arnhem September 14 - Capture of Hulst by Maurice October 21 - Capture of Nijmegen by Maurice. October 29 - Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV. Russia, Murder of Dimitri, son of the Tsar Russia, Boris Godunov is elected Tsar The city of Hyderabad is founded by Quli Quub Shah Births March 15 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary. August 24 - Robert Herrick, English poet. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter. Isabella, daughter of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy, wife of Alphonso of Este, duke of Modena. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex. Willebrord Snell, Dutch astronomer and mathematician. Deaths July 18 - Jacobus Gallus Carniolus, Slovene composer October 16 - Pope Gregory XIV December 30 - Pope Innocent IX Christian I., Elector of Saxony Saint John of the Cross, Spanish mystic
