Thomas Platter the Younger, a Swiss traveller, saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a Bankside theatre on 21 September 1599 and this was most likely Shakespeare's play, as there is no obvious alternative candidate.

In 1599 Shakespeare's Company literally upped sticks and moved the timbers of ' The Theatre ' to Southwark at expiration of the lease to construct The Globe.

It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

The play was Shakespeare's most popular printed text: new editions appeared in 1599, 1604, 1608, 1613, 1622, 1632, 1639, and 1692.

* Brutus in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( 1599 ).

* He is called " envious Casca " by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar ( 1599 ):

" And two years earlier, in 1599, the play Sir John Oldcastle was performed by the Admiral's Men, the main theatrical rivals of Shakespeare's company.

From 1597 to 1599, it became the premier venue of Shakespeare's Company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, who had been forced to leave their former playing space at The Theatre after the latter closed in 1596.

The title page of this second edition states that the book is to be sold by stationer William Leake ; Leake had obtained the rights to Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in 1596 and published five octavo editions of that poem ( the third edition through the eighth ) in the 1599 – 1602 period.

* In William Shakespeare's Henry V ( 1599 ), the King describes the betrayal of Lord Scroop – a friend since childhood – as being " like another fall of man ", referring to the loss of his own faith and innocence the treason has caused.

" Immortalized by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ( 1599 ), the quotation is widely used in Western culture to signify the utmost betrayal.

The phrase Et tu, Brute ?, maintains its familiarity from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar ( 1599 ), where it actually forms the first half of a macaronic line: " Et tu, Brute?

* The original Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's London, built in 1599.

It was Wanamaker's wish that the new building would recreate the Globe as it existed during most of Shakespeare's time there ; that is, the 1599 building rather than its 1614 replacement.

The Theatre was rapidly followed by the nearby Curtain Theatre ( 1577 ), the Rose ( 1587 ), the Swan ( 1595 ), the Globe ( 1599 ), the Fortune ( 1600 ), and the Red Bull ( 1604 ).

A tradition, impossible to verify, holds that Henry V was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre in the spring of 1599 — the Globe would have been the " wooden O " mentioned in the Prologue — but Shapiro argues that the Chamberlain's Men were still at The Curtain when the work was first performed, and that Shakespeare himself probably acted the Chorus.

A reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London, originally built in 1599 and used by Shakespeare

The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576.

Armin played on the Globe stage by August 1600 ; Wiles theorizes that he may have joined the Chamberlain ’ s Men in 1599, but continued to perform solo pieces at the Curtain ; however, he may also have played with the company at the Curtain, while Kempe was still a member.

When the Lord Chamberlain's Men built the Globe Theatre on the Bankside in 1599, however, the Rose was put into a difficult position.

: First recorded performance: 21 September 1599 at the newly opened Globe Theatre

The Lord Chamberlain's Men departed the Curtain when the Globe, which they built to replace the Theatre, was ready for use ( 1599 ).

In 1599, the timber from The Theatre was moved to Southwark, where it was used in building the Globe Theatre in a new theatre district formed, beyond the controls of the City corporation.

The nearby Globe Theatre ( 1599 ) was larger, at 100 feet ( 30 metres ).

The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by the playing company Lord Chamberlain's Men, to which Shakespeare belonged, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

A study was made of what was known of the construction of The Theatre, the building from which the 1599 Globe obtained much of its timber, as a starting point for the modern building's design.

A different model was developed with the Blackfriars Theatre, which came into regular use on a long-term basis in 1599.

* Histriomastix, London, Paul's Theatre, 1599 ( attrib.

Stage of the OSF Elizabethan TheatreThe next year saw the opening of the current outdoor Elizabethan Theatre, patterned on London's 1599 Fortune Theatre.

One story is that London's Blackfriars Theatre ( 1599 ) included a room behind the scenes ; this room happened to be painted green ; here the actors waited to go on stage ; and it was called " the green room.

He was made rector of the Roman College in 1592, examiner of bishops in 1598, and cardinal in 1599.

There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted ( the first castrati so termed who joined the Sistine choir were Pietro Paolo Folignato and Girolamo Rossini, admitted in 1599 ).

He was noted for his literary and theatrical patronage, and between 1564 and 1599 some 33 works included dedications to him by authors including Arthur Golding, John Lyly, Robert Greene and Anthony Munday.

On 28 April 1599 Oxford was sued by the widow of his tailor for a debt of £ 500 for services rendered some two decades earlier.

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

By 1599, however, he again felt his work limited by the inaccuracy of available data — just as growing religious tension was also threatening his continued employment in Graz.

Impatient for power, however, he revolted in 1599 while Akbar was engaged in the Deccan.

In 1599, three years later, Musashi left his village, apparently at the age of 15 ( according to the Tosakushi, " The Registry of the Sakushu Region ", although the Tanji Hokin Hikki says he was 16 years old in 1599, which agrees time-wise with the age reported in Musashi's first duel ).

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

Several surviving references indicate that a Hamlet-like play was well-known throughout the 1590s, well before the traditional date of composition ( 1599 – 1601 ).

Pope Alexander VII ( 13 February 1599 – 22 May 1667 ), born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from 7 April 1655, until his death.

In 1599 he ordered the Italian miller Menocchio – who had formed the belief that God was not eternal but had Himself once been created out of chaos – to be burned at the stake.

Michael the Brave ( Romanian: Mihai Viteazul ) was the Prince of Wallachia ( 1593 – 1601 ), of Transylvania ( 1599 – 1600 ), and of Moldavia ( 1600 ).

The miller Domenico Scandella was also burned at the stake on the orders of Pope Clement VIII in 1599 for his belief that God was created from chaos.

After a long struggle, the party of Boris Godunov prevailed over the Romanovs, and the former was elected new Tsar in 1599.

Cahir Castle in Ireland was besieged and captured three times: in 1599 by the Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Earl of Essex, in 1647 by Lord Inchiquin, and in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell.

In 1599 the number of students was approximately 150.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

Year 1599 ( MDXCIX ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.