Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1597
Birthdays
- February 24 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
- August 21 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
- November 19 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
- December 23 - Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
Deaths
- January 29 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
- June 20 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator
- October 9 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
- December 21 - Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (b. 1521)
Events
- February 5 - A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
- April 23 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance.
- June 24 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
|
|
|
|
