He served as administrator of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg from 1566 to 1598, then succeeded his father as Elector of Brandenburg in 1598.

Boris Fyodorovich Godunov (, ; c. 1551 – ) was de facto regent of Russia from c. 1585 to 1598 and then the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605.

The thirsty travelers drank the cool water and then celebrated with a Thanksgiving Mass and enjoyed a feast of fish, fowl and deer on April 30, 1598.

It is however on record that Barnes was prosecuted in Star Chamber in 1598 for attempting to murder one John Browne, first by offering him a poisoned lemon and then by sweetening his wine with sugar laced with mercury sublimate.

Persons was successful, and then made use of the royal favour to found the seminaries of Valladolid, Seville, and Madrid ( 1589, 1592, 1598 ) and the residences of San-Lucar and of Lisbu ( which became a college in 1622 ).

Attracted by the Dutch trade with India, Adams, then 34 years old, shipped as pilot major with a five ship fleet dispatched from the isle of Texel to the Far East in 1598 by a company of Rotterdam merchants ( a voorcompagnie or predecessor of the Dutch East India Company ).

In 1598, Burbage's company ( by then, the Lord Chamberlain's Men ) erected the new Globe Theatre in Bankside ; Henslowe moved the Admiral's Men to the north-western corner of the city, into a venue he had financed, the Fortune Theatre.

When Shakespeare adapted that play in Henry IV, Part 1, Oldcastle still appeared ; but when the play was printed in 1598 Falstaff's name was substituted, in deference, as it is said, to the then Lord Cobham.

Furthermore, evidence in the quarto text suggests that Shakespeare originally wrote the role of Dogberry for William Kempe, however, records indicate that Kempe left the Lord Chamberlain's Men sometime in late 1598, so the play must have been written before then.

In addition, because the play is not mentioned in Meres ' Palladis Tamia, registered in September 1598, it was unlikely to have been performed prior to then.

Keyser died in Java the following year – the expedition had many casualties – but his catalogue of 135 stars, probably measured up with the help of explorer-colleague Frederick de Houtman, was delivered to Plancius, and then those stars were arranged into 12 new southern constellations, letting them be inscribed on a 35-cm celestial globe that was prepared in late 1597 ( or early 1598 ).

His father's death in 1598 brought him a seat in the House of Lords, the 2nd Lord Burghley, as he then was, served from 1599 to 1603 as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire and Lord President of the Council of the North.

He became member of the Privy Council, then on 18 August 1598 president of the Greater Council of Mechelen.

In 1598 he was translated to the parish church of the Upper Tolbooth, Edinburgh, and immediately thereafter to that of the Grey Friars ( then known as the Magdalen Church ).

He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 1576 – 1581, and then Provost of The Queen's College, 1581 – 1598.

The property was passed down through several generations of Sir Richard's family, then sold to Stephen Proctor who built Fountains Hall probably between 1598 and 1604.

Anne died on 10 February 1598 and Sigismund III then married her sister Constance Renate of Habsburg.

He was then made commander of part of Hideyoshi's fleet, taking part in Hideyoshi's 1587 campaigns in Kyūshū, the 1590 Siege of Odawara, and the invasions of Korea, which took place from 1592 to 1598.

In 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi moved the hibutsu to Kyoto, and then to Shinano.

The villa, aligned with the cathedral down its axial avenue that is continued through the town as Viale Catone, was rebuilt in the current form by Giacomo della Porta from 1598 to 1602, and then completed by Carlo Maderno and Giovanni Fontana.

His university career, first at Ingolstadt ( 1595 ‑ 1596 ), then at Altdorf near Nuremberg ( 1597 ‑ 1598 ), was cut short by his poverty, from which he suffered all his life, and which was the main cause of his wanderings.

During the Reformation in 1524, Martin Luther advocated compulsory schooling so that all parishioners would be able to read the Bible themselves, and Strasbourg — then a free city of the Holy Roman Empire — passed accordant legislation in 1598.

Philip II died in 1598, and was succeeded by his son Philip III.

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

He also served as a legate to Philip II of Spain ( 1556 – 1598 ), being sent by the Pope to investigate the Cardinal of Toledo.

Philip II of Spain's ( 1556 – 1598 ) high-handed interference at the previous conclave was not forgotten: he had barred all but seven cardinals.

Mindful of the origin of his success, Innocent IX supported, during his two months ' pontificate, the cause of Philip II and the Catholic League against Henry IV of France ( 1589 – 1610 ) in the civil Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 1598 ), where a papal army was in the field.

As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.

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

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

) Of the 70-plus known works in the canon of Thomas Dekker, roughly 50 are collaborations ; in a single year, 1598, Dekker worked on 16 collaborations for impresario Philip Henslowe, and earned £ 30, or a little under 12 shillings per week — roughly twice as much as the average artisan's income of 1s.

Philip II of Spain (; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598

* Philip II of Spain ( 1527 – 1598 ), the only son to reach adulthood.

His abilities as a commander and the lack of strong leadership in Spain after the death of Philip II ( 1598 ) gave Maurits excellent opportunities to conquer large parts of the present-day Dutch territory.

In 1598, Philip II gave the province to his daughter on her marriage to an Austrian archduke.

* Patrick Williams, The Great Favourite: The Duke of Lerma, and the court and government of King Philip III of Spain, 1598 – 1621.

* Hot Anger Soon Cold a play by Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson ; mentioned in Philip Henslowe's diary, August 1598.

* Philip II of Spain, aka Philip I of Portugal ( 1526 – 1598 )

Later in belonged to Duke Charles from 1560 to 1598 and to his son Duke Charles Philip from 1611 to 1622.

Philip II of Spain, reacting to the Protestant Reformation sweeping through Europe during the 16th century, devoted much of his lengthy reign ( 1556 – 1598 ) and much of his seemingly inexhaustible supply of New World gold to stemming the Protestant tide.

* Philip II of Spain ( 1527 – 1598 )

( The plural " Armadas " refers to a lesser-known second attempt by Philip II of Spain to conquer England in 1598, which Graham argued was better planned and organised than the famous one of 1588, but was foiled by a fierce storm scattering the Spanish ships and sinking many of them.

More certain is his work as a playwright for the Admiral's Men of Philip Henslowe, in whose account book he is first mentioned in early 1598.

* Philip II of Spain ( 1527 – 1598 )