Events from the year 1591 in
France
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...
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Henry IV
Events
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Siege of Rouen
Births
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Alexandre de Rhodes
Alexandre de Rhodes (15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660) was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the ''Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum'', the first trilingua ...
, Jesuit missionary (died
1660
Events
January–March
* January 1
** At daybreak, English Army Colonel George Monck, with two brigades of troops from his Scottish occupational force, fords the River Tweed at Coldstream in Scotland to cross the border into England ...
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Full date missing
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Girard Desargues
Girard Desargues (; 21 February 1591 – September 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Desargues' theorem, the Desargues graph, and the crater Desargues on the Moon are ...
, mathematician (died
1661
Events
January–March
* January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists, led by Thomas Venner, unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeats them.
* January 29 – The Rokeby baronets, a British ...
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Deaths
Full date missing
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Barnabé Brisson
Barnabé Brisson (Latinised: Barnabas Brissonius) (1531 – 15 November 1591) was a French jurist and politician.
Biography
Born as the son of the king's lieutenant in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, Brisson studied law in Orléans, Bourges and fi ...
, jurist and politician (born 1531)
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Noël du Fail, jurist and writer (born c.1520)
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Edmond Auger
Edmond Auger (1530 – 19 January 1591) was a French Jesuit priest.
Life
Born near Troyes, he entered the Society of Jesus while St. Ignatius was still living, and was regarded as one of the most eloquent men of his time. Mathew calls him the ...
, Jesuit (born 1530)
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Claude de Sainctes
Claude de Sainctes (b. at Perche, 1525; d. at Crèvecœur-en-Auge, Crèvecoeur, 1591) was a French Catholic controversialist.
Biography
At the age of fifteen he joined the Canons Regular of Saint-Cheron, and was sent to the College of Navarre in P ...
, Catholic controversialist (born 1525)
See also
References
1590s in France
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