Important Historical Events of the year 1590, Year 1590 in History

List of 1590 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1590

What happened in the year 1590?

Date Event
February 8, 1590 Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico, charged with concealing the practice of Judaism of his sister and her children.
March 14, 1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
May 17, 1590 Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
August 18, 1590 John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.
August 30, 1590 Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
September 5, 1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to lift the siege of Paris.
September 27, 1590 The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal reign in history.
October 16, 1590 Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
October 24, 1590 John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.