* 1555 – Edward Kelley, English spirit medium ( d. 1597 )

* 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician ( d. 1672 )

* Alfonso II d ' Este ( 1533 – 1597 ), duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597

* 1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun ( d. 1597 )

* 1640 – John Francis Regis, French saint ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit ( b. 1521 )

* 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( d. 1648 )

* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.

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* 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist ( b. 1530 )

* 1662 – Prince Honoré II of Monaco ( b. 1597 )

# John ( 1597 – 1627 ), Bishop of Havelberg

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* 1521 – Peter Canisius, Dutch priest ( d. 1597 )

* 1540 – Maharana Pratap, Hindu ruler of Mewar ( d. 1597 )

* 1648 – Vincent Voiture, French poet ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal ( d. 1659 )

* 1676 – Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat ( b. 1597 )

* 1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria ( d. 1660 )

Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

It first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius.

Dorado was one of twelve constellations named by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

Grus first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

Hydrus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

It first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

During the Islands Voyage expedition to the Azores in 1597, with Walter Raleigh as his second in command, he defied the Queen's orders, pursuing the treasure fleet without first defeating the Spanish battle fleet.

In January 1597, De Veer became the first person to witness and record the atmospheric anomaly known as the Novaya Zemlya effect.

The play was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 29 August 1597 by the bookseller Andrew Wise ; the first quarto was published by him later that year, printed by Valentine Simmes.

The first three quartos ( printed in 1597 and 1598, commonly assumed to have been prepared from Shakespeare's holograph ) lack the deposition scene.

The first Queen's Counsel Extraordinary was Sir Francis Bacon, who was given a patent giving him precedence at the Bar in 1597, and formally styled King's Counsel in 1603.

The first part of the Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha, covering the reign up to 1597, appeared in 1615.

Thus, Gresham College, the first institution of higher learning in London, came to be established in 1597.

The epic Elizabethan poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was published, in its first part, in 1590 and then in completed form in 1597.

He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne ( around 1597 ), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice ( 1600 ).

A grant from the Scottish Parliament in 1595 allowed the first college building to be erected by Alexander Fraser, and in 1597 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland recommended the Rev.

Although Richard III was entered into the Register of the Stationers Company on 20 October 1597, by the bookseller Andrew Wise, who published the first quarto ( Q1 ) later that year ( with printing done by Valentine Simmes ), Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, which cannot have been written much later than 1592 ( Marlowe died in 1593 ) is thought to have been influenced by it.

* William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the third ( London: Andrew Wise, 1597 ) – HTML version of the first edition.

The Carmen Temple is all that remains of the former La Encarnación convent which was founded at in 1597 with the first nuns arriving between 1609 and 1610.

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597.

The first complete code of poor relief was made in the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 and some provision for the " deserving poor " was eventually made in the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601.