* 1598 – Nine Years ' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford – Irish forces under Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

* 1573 – Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland ( d. 1598 )

* 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

* 1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer ( d. 1598 )

* 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer ( d. 1671 )

* 1653 – Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral ( b. 1598 )

From 1598 – 1600 is a triple Portrait, now in Naples, an example of genre painting.

** Akita Toshisue ( 秋田俊季, 1598 – 1649 ), son of Sanesue

* 1598 – Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman ( b. 1538 )

* 1598 – Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point – The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory.

* 1598 – Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), Admiral Yi commanded his navy with kites.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo ) ( Naples, 7 December 1598 – Rome, 28 November 1680 ) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome.

Conflicts included an attempt to conquer England – a cautious supporter of the Dutch – in the unsuccessful Spanish Armada, an early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), and war with France ( 1590 – 1598 ).

In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

The Hispanic World in Crisis and Change: 1598 – 1700 ( 1994 ) excerpt and text search

King Philip ( 1527 – 1598 ) had very little power, although he did protect Elizabeth.

The Wars of Religion culminated in the War of the Three Henrys ( 1584 – 1598 ) in which the royalist King Henry III of France assassinated Henry de Guise, leader of the Spanish-backed Catholic league and the king was murdered in return, followed by the ascension of the Huguenot Henry of Navarre to the French throne.

* April 22 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet ( b. 1598 )

Georg Stiernhielm ( August 7, 1598 – April 22, 1672 ) was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet.

When Hans Georg von Bicken found out that he would keep being denied inheritance along the male line, he asked Archbishop of Mainz Wolfgang von Dalberg on 10 November 1598 to change the Heidesheim Vogtei, which had been transferred to him and his cousins as a non-heritable fief, into a heritable fief.

Friedrich III ’ s brothers Georg and Reichard formed the short-lived line of the Counts Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, whose holdings passed back to the Electorate under Friedrich IV on Reichard ’ s death in 1598.

* Isagoge in peripateticorum et scholasticorum primam philosopiam, quae dici consuevit metaphysica, 1598 ( reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1976 )

In 1592 Sigismund married the Austrian archduchess Anna of Austria ( 1573 – 1598 ) Anna Habsburzanka and after his father's death the same year, he received permission from the Sejm to accept the Swedish throne.

* Christopher Vasa, Swedish prince 1598, son of King Sigmund, his mother the Queen and he both died at his birth

Åke Henriksson Tott ( or Achatius Tott ) ( 1598 – 1640 ) was a Swedish soldier and politician.

The Dorpat Voivodeship ( or województwo derpskie ) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1598 until the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s.

At the end of May 1598 Sigismund landed on Swedish soil at Avaskär.

The Parnawa Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 until the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s.

Wenden Voivodeship () was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Duchy of Livonia, part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, since it was formed in 1598 until the Swedish conquest of Livonia in the 1620s.

In 1597 Boris Godunov (' de facto ' regent of Russia from 1584 to 1598 and Tsar from 1598 to 1605 ) wrote to Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, asserting that Vardøhus and " the Lapp country ( as far as Tromsø ) was from ancient times a perpetual patrimony of the Czar .” In 1600 Gudunov refused to ratify the Treaty of Tyavzino which resolved conflicting Swedish and Russian claims to the Kola peninsula to the east of Vardøhus as well as other territories both claimed.

* Åke Henriksson Tott ( 1598 – 1640 ), Swedish soldier and politician

By 1598, they were so famous, London poet and sonneteer Richard Barnefield wrote:

* Ben Jonson – playwright and poet, imprisoned for the 22 September 1598 killing of his fellow actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.

* October 27-Giovanni Francesco Busenello, poet and librettist ( born 1598 )

At what date he acquired the title of " poet to the city " is not known ; he had certainly been previously employed in a similar capacity, as Ben Jonson introduces him in that capacity in " The Case is Altered ," which was written in 1598 or 1599.

The deaths of his father ( in 1598 ) and of his elder brother, Sir Henry Beaumont ( in 1605 ), made the poet the head of this brilliant family: the dramatist, Francis Beaumont, was his younger brother.

Joshua Sylvester, another English poet around the court of King James, also translated Essay of the Second Week ( 1598 ) and The Divine Weeks of the World's Birth ( 1604 ).

* 1598 – Hans Nansen, Danish statesman ( d. 1667 )

* 1598 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter ( d. 1664 )

* 1598 – Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1655 )

* 1525 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1598 )

* 1521 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman ( d. 1598 )

* May 31 – Tsar Feodor I of Russia ( d. 1598 )

* October 14 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright ( d. 1598 )

* February 2 – Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord ( b. this day or March 26, 1537 ; d. 1598 )

** Anna Guarini, Italian virtuoso singer ( d. 1598 )

** Jasper Heywood, English translator of Seneca ( d. 1598 )

** Jacopo Mazzoni, Italian philosopher ( d. 1598 )

* April 28 – Yi Sun-sin, Korean naval leader ( d. 1598 )

* April 14 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer ( d. 1598 )

* May 21 – King Philip II of Spain ( d. 1598 )

* May 21 – King Philip II of Spain ( d. 1598 )

* September 11 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg ( d. 1598 )

** Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author ( d. 1602 ); and his twin brother, Nicolas Pithou, French lawyer and author ( d. 1598 )

1560 ), after September 1543 – 3 January 1578 Abandonment again 3 January 1578 – February 1606 Troilus de Mesgouez, marquis de la Roche-Mesgouez ( d. 1606 ) ( viceroy and from 12 January 1598, lieutenant-general ), February 1606 – 1614 Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt, baron de St. Just ( b. 1557 – d.

Duke Cesare d ' Este hired Vecchi in 1598 to be his maestro di corte, i. e. the master of music at his court, and Vecchi accompanied him to Rome and Florence in 1600 ; while in Florence he heard Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice.