1597

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[edit] Events of 1597

January 24 - Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands
February 5 - In Nagasaki, Japan, 26 people were martyred. They practiced Catholicism and were taken captive after all forms of Christianity were outlawed the previous year.
February 8 - Sir Anthony Shirley, England's "best-educated pirate", raids Jamaica.
March 11 - Amiens is taken by Spanish forces.
March 18 - Tycho Brahe's stipend is stopped.
March 29 - Tycho Brahe leaves Ven and moves to Copenhagen (Farvergården).
April 4 - Christian Friis and Axel Brahe go to Ven to check complaints, and a commission is established to investigate Tycho Brahe's leadership.
April 22 - The vicar on Ven is dismissed; he had followed Tycho's orders not to perform an exorcism.
April 27 - Johannes Kepler marries Barbara Muhleck.
June 1 Tycho writes a recommendation supporting Longomontanus who is planning to study in Germany.
June - Tycho Brahe is not allowed to make observations from The Watermill Tower, and he is not allowed to perform chemical experiments at his house in Farvergade.
June 2 - Tycho leaves Copenhagen and goes to Rostock.
June 10 - Tycho is removed from his job working at Epiphany Chapel in Roskilde.
June 24 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).

July - The Isle of Dogs, a play now lost, was written by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson and performed at the Swan Theatre.
July 10 - Tycho Brahe's famous letter to the king Christian IV is sent from Rostock.
July 14 - Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
August 13 - Beginning of the Siege of Namwon.
August 17 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.
August 24 - Christian IV of Denmark refuses to let Tycho Brahe return to Denmark.
August 28 - Battle of Chilcheollyang: a naval battle in which the Japanese fleet defeat the Koreans. It was the only Japanese naval victory in the Imjin War.
September - Tycho Brahe leaves Rostock, where plague is spreading, and he travels to Wandsbæk.
October - John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.
October 20 - Tycho starts new observations in Wandsbæk, where he writes his famous elegy.
October 26 - Battle of Myeongnyang: a victory for the Koreans, commanded by Yi Sunsin, over the Japanese.
December 15 - Johannes Kepler writes a letter to Tycho about his book, Mysterium Cosmographicum.
December 31 - Tycho writes his preface to the Emperor Rudolf II in his book, Mecanica.

Jacopo Peri writes Dafne, now recognised as the first opera.
Bali is discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman.
Abbas I ends the Uzbek raids on his lands.
Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel as Emperor of Ethiopia.
First edition of Francis Bacon's Essays is published.
12 million pesos of silver crosses the Pacific. Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade—Acapulco—shipped out 150,000 to 345,000 kg (4 to 9 million teals) of silver annually from this year to 1602.