in Japan, is promulgated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. October 21 – Siege of Nijmegen: Nijmegen is captured by Maurice. October 26 – The Portuguese invasion of Jaffna Kingdom begins. October 29 – Pope Innocent IX succeeds Pope Gregory XIV, becoming the 230th pope. Date unknown The city of Hyderabad, India is founded by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. The Rialto Bridge in Venice, designed by Antonio da Ponte, is completed. The first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle, by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, is published. The Siamese-Cambodian War begins. The defeated Askia dynasty move to the Dendi province in modern-day Niger. Births January–June January 3 – Valentin de Boulogne, French painter (d. 1632) January 4 – William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, British baron (d. 1636) January 7 – Princess Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1617) January 11 – Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646) January 12 – Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker (d. 1652) January 15 – David van Goorle, Dutch theologian and theoretical scientist (d. 1612) January 26 – Matthew Boynton, English politician (d. 1647) January 29 – Franciscus Junius, pioneer of Germanic philology (d. 1677) February 8 Hervey Bagot, English politician (d. 1660) Guercino, Italian painter (d. 1666) February 13 – Antonio Sabino, Italian composer (d. 1650) February 21 (or March 2) – Girard Desargues, French mathematician (d. 1661) February 25 – Friedrich von Spee, German Jesuit and poet (d. 1635) February 28 – Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland, English politician (d. 1643) March 2 – Willem Boreel, Dutch diplomat (d. 1668) March 3 – Lucas de Wael, Flemish painter (d. 1661) March 6 – Tommaso Tamburini, Italian theologian (d. 1675) March 9 – Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre, Dutch abbot, ecclesiastical writer (d. 1652) March 11 – Isabella of Savoy, Italian noble (d. 1626) March 15 or 1593 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660) March 19 – Dirck Hals, Dutch painter (d. 1656) March 28 – William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (d. 1668) April 5 – Prince Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1634) April 11 – Bartholomeus Strobel, Silezian painter (d. 1650) April 25 – Marcos de Torres y Rueda, interim viceroy of New Spain (d. 1649) May 2 – Prince Francis Charles of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1660) May 5 – Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (d. 1631) May