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Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* June 6 – William Hunnis (birth year not known), English
* June 9 –
Events
Works published
* Nicholas Breton: ** ''The Arbor of Amorous Devises'', anthology partly by Breton, probably compiled by the printer, Richard Jones; reprints 10 poems from ''Brittons Bowre of Delights''1591
Events
January–June
* March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the fractured Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at l ...
Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
** ''Auspicante Jehova''
* John Dowland, ''The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes'' verse and music (see also ''Second Booke'' 1600
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In the Gregorian calendar, it was the last century leap year until the year 2000.
Events
January–June
* January 1 – Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of March 25.
* January
** Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of T ...
, ''Third and Last Booke'' 1603
Events
January–June
* February 25 – Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship '' Santa Catarina'' is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established ...
)
* Michael Drayton, ''Englands Heroicall Epistles'' (expanded in 1598
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Events
January–June
* February 21 – Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia, following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I; the ''Time of Troubles'' starts.
* April 13 – Edict of Nantes (promulgated April 30 ...
; reprinted in ''The Barrons Wars'' 1603
Events
January–June
* February 25 – Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship '' Santa Catarina'' is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established ...
)
* Joseph Hall, ''Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes''
* Henry Lok
Henry Lok (Lock, Locke) (1553?-1608?) was an English poet.
Life
He was third son of Henry Lok, a London mercer (d. 1571), by his wife Anne Vaughan, the poet. Michael Lok the traveller was the poet's uncle, and Sir William Lok was his grandfathe ...
, ''Ecclesiastes, Otherwise Called the Preacher''
* Gervase Markham, translated from a lost original work by Genevieve Petau de Maulette, ''Devoreux''
* Thomas Middleton, ''The Wisodome of Solomon Paraphrased''
* Thomas Morley, ''Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Foure Voyces'', verse and music (see also ''Canzonets'' 1593
Events
January–December
* January – Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.
* January 18 – Siamese King Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, k ...
)
* Robert Parry, ''Sinetes Passion Uppon his Fortunes''
* Robert Tofte, ''Laura: The Toyes of a Traveller; or, The Feast of Fancie'', contains a statement, likely untrue, that more than 30 of the poems in the book are not by Tofte
* Nicholas Yonge, ''Musica Transalpina. Cantus'', verse and music (see also ''Musica Transalpina'' 1588
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Events
January–June
* February – The Sinhalese abandon the siege of Colombo, capital of Portuguese Ceylon.
* February 9 – The sudden death of Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquis of Santa Cruz, in the midst of pr ...
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article: * February 24 – Vincent Voiture (died1648
1648 has been suggested as possibly the last year in which the overall human population declined, coming towards the end of a broader period of global instability which included the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Thirty Years' War, t ...
), French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
poet and writer
* May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (died 1654
Events
January–March
* January 6– In India, Jaswant Singh of Marwar (in what is now the state of Rajasthan) is elevated to the title of Maharaja by Emperor Shah Jahan.
* January 11– In the Battle of Río Bueno in sout ...
), French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
writer and poet writing verses in both French and Latin
* December 23 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (died 1639
Events
January–March
* January 14 – Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted.
* January 19 – Hämeenlinna ( sv, Tavastehus) is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, ...
), German
* Also:
** Johan van Heemskerk (died 1656
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The First War of Villmergen, a civil war in the Confederation of Switzerland pitting its Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons against each other, breaks out but is resolved by March 7. The ...
), Dutch poet
** Christopher Harvey (died 1662
Events
January–March
* January 4 – Dziaddin Mukarram Shah becomes the new Sultan of Kedah, an independent kingdom on the Malay Peninsula, upon the death of his father, Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur.
* January 10 – At the ...
), English
** Claude de Malleville
Claude Malleville, born in Paris probably between 1594 and 1596 and died in the same city in 1647, was a French poet. He became one of the first members of the Académie Française in 1634.
His life
Knowledge about Claude Malleville's life was ...
(died 1634
Events
January–March
* January 12– After suspecting that he will be dismissed, Albrecht von Wallenstein, supreme commander of the Holy Roman Empire's Army, demands that his colonels sign a declaration of personal loyalty.
...
), French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
** Rachel Speght
Rachel Speght (1597 – death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tr ...
(death year not known), English polemicist and poet
** Wang Wei (died 1647
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong by a Qing archer after having been betrayed one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong.
...
), Chinese prostitute and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* June 6 – William Hunnis (birth year not known), English
* June 9 – Joseph of Anchieta
José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo (Joseph of Anchieta) (19 March 1534 – 9 June 1597) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's ...
(born 1534
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Events
January–June
* January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the ''Act Respecting th ...
), Spanish Jesuit missionary, poet and playwrightKurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003,
* Also:
** Fernando de Herrera (born c. 1534
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Year 1534 ( MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 15 – The Parliament of England passes the ''Act Respecting th ...
), Spanish
** George Turberville, also spelled "Turbervile", death year uncertain (born c. 1544
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Events
January–June
* January 13 – At Västerås, the estates of Sweden swear loyalty to King Gustav Vasa and to his heirs, ending the traditional electoral monarchy in Sweden. Gustav subsequently signs an allianc ...
), English poet and translator
See also
* Poetry *16th century in poetry
Works published
* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.
* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works).
Births and deaths
England
* John Skelton (c. 1460–152 ...
* 16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
Events
1501
**Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid'' ...
* Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
* Elizabethan literature
* English Madrigal School
* French Renaissance literature
* Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance. The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, ...
* Spanish Renaissance literature
* University Wits
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