1588

This page relates to the year 1588 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Empire Songhaï: With died of Mohamed Bano, his partisans proclaim askia his brother Ishak II, which puts in rout the troops of his/her Sadiki brother and manages to restore its authority (end in 1592).
Regency of Algiers: The fleet ( taïfa ) of Algiers counts 35 galères. There will remain only four fifty years about it later. More of two thirds of the of Algiers galiotes are ordered by European renegades.

Japan: All the Daimyô S lend oath of allegiance to the emperor. Hideyoshi, which then leads its famous “hunting to the sabers”, completes its work of unification of the country, disarming the farming community, carrying out the land surveying of the grounds, encouraging industry and the trade.

April 4th: Christian IV succeeds Frederic II as king of the Denmark and Norway (fine in 1648). A council of regency controls in Denmark until in 1595.

June 12th - August 8th: The Spain arms the Invincible Armada against the England. The fleet is destroyed with Gravelines in the Pas-de-Calais by the English fleet.

Philippe II of Spain sends its “Invincible Armada” to unload the army of 19 000 men of Alexandre Farnèse (Netherlands), in England in order to punish the queen Elisabeth Anger of England of the execution of Marie Stuart her cousin and to restore Catholicism. The fleet leaves Lisbon the June 18th. The death of its commander, the marquis de Santa Cruz (February 9th) leaves it with the hands of inefficient the duke of Medina Sidonia (departure of Corogne, the July 12th). She enters in Manche the July 28th and drops anchor with broad Dunkirk and of Calais. Storms, harassing of the English sailors (Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Raleigh) which refuses direct confrontation, while directing on Armada of the ignited ships, delay of the reinforcements of Alexandre Farnèse, ruin the forwarding which cannot unload (July 30th - August 7th). A strong strong gale of the South the force to weighing the anchor the August 10th and starting the Circumnavigation British Isles. The fleet lost 11 000 men and sixty-three vessels on a hundred and thirty will turn over to Lisbon (September 15th). The Spain loses its maritime supremacy.

Robert of Essex succeeds like favorite of the queen Elisabeth Ire of England his/her beautiful father Robert Dudley.
In Russia, Fédor Ier leaves the capacity to his/her brother-in-law Boris Godounov.
$the Hague, capital of the Holland, becomes residence permanent of the General states of the United Provinces.
Influenza with Venice. The epidemic reaches without destroying it all the population, then gains Milan, the France, the Catalogne then the America.

the Catholic League, very powerful with Paris and in the main cities of the kingdom refuses the compromise.
April: The General states of the United Provinces give a subsidy of 90 000 guilders with Henri de Navarre to fight against the Spain.
March 5th: Died of the prince Henri de Condé of the continuations of wounds. Henri de Navarre becomes the Protestant main leader.
May 12th: First day of the Barricades of the Members of a league, with Paris, against Henri III.

Called by the Sixteen, Henri Ier de Guise enters to Paris in spite of the defense of the king. The counterpart armed with the king causes the insurrection of Parisian which bars the streets with barrels filled with ground. The king must flee towards the west and leave the place to the duke of Own way (May 13rd).

July 10th: Of return to Paris, Michel de Montaigne is imprisoned by the men of the Ligue. It is released, thanks to the intervention of the queen Catherine de Médicis near the duke of Own way.
July 15th: Henri III is constrained to sign with Rouen with the Ligue the Édit of union, by which it names Henri of Lorraine, known as the Gash , general Lieutenant of the armies of the kingdom and the cardinal of Bourbon the heir apparent to the throne under the name of Charles X (August 4th).
September 8th: Henri III congédie his Secretaries of State (Bellièvre, Brûlart, Pinart, Villeroy) and his chancellor (Cheverny), unpopular or accessory to the Own way, replaces them, then convenes the General states in Blois (September).
October 16th: The meeting of the General states to Blois, shows the any power of the holy Ligue and its chief the duke Henri of Lorraine. The king is humiliated by the States, dominated by the Members of a league, who claim a representative role.
December 23rd: Assassination, at the time of a meeting of the General states to the Castle of Blois of the Duke of Own way, Henri of Lorraine, chief of the holy League, by its guard of Forty-five on order of the King de France Henri III.
December 24th: Assassination, with the Castle of Blois, the shortly after that of his/her brother the duke Henri of Lorraine, Louis II, Cardinal of Own way, archbishop-duke of Rheims of 1574 at 1588, also on order of Henri III.

the League, decapitated, breaks any contact with Henri III, declared tyrant and traitor with the catholic cause. With Paris, the Sixteen take their independence and make reign terror. The League raises the Brittany (1588 - 1598), the Champagne (1588 - 1593), the Burgundy (1588 - 1595), Rouen (1589 - 1594) and the Provence (1589-1593).

Charles-Emmanuel Ier of Savoy, benefitting from the interior disorders, takes the marquisat Saluces with the France.
Creation of the ministry for the foreign relations (today Ministry for Foreign Affairs), by Henri III.
Believed of the Gier.

Spain: the Agreement of the free will with the gift of the grace, the divine prescience, providence, predestination and reprobation , of the Jesuit Shine Molina, starts of violent reaction of the Dominicain S and a long controversy on the Grâce.

Publication of the first periodic gazette in Germany: New of the fairs , by Michel von Aitzing with Cologne.
July 10th: Of return to Paris, Michel de Montaigne is imprisoned by the men of the Ligue. It is released, thanks to the intervention of the queen Catherine de Médicis near the duke of Own way.
Second edition of the Tests of Montaigne .
William Shakespeare makes her beginnings of actor and dramatic author with London.
the Paradise , fabric of the Tintoret.
Caravage works in Rome in the church Saint-Louis-of-French with the execution of the life of saint Matthieu .
Completion of the cupola of Saint-Pierre of Rome.

the English align 197 ships to be opposed to the 148 vessels Invincible Armada.
Lesson on the currency of Davanzati.
Cause of the size and magnificence of the city , Botero.
the English ambassador with Constantinople concluded a trade agreement according to which English cloths would be exchanged against the “white cattle” (white oxen of Moldavie, exported via Dantzig).

January 5th: IQ Jiguang, general Chinese (° 1528)
March 1st: Jacques Daléchamps, French botanist (° 1513)
March 5th: Henri I {{er}} of Bourbon-Cop
April 19th: Paul Véronèse ( Paolo Caliari ), Venetian painter (° 1528)
June 10th: Valentine Weigel German philosopher (born in 1533) founder of the mystical sect of the weigeliens.
July 17th: Sinan, Othoman architect (° April 15th 1489)
November 1st: Jean Dorat, humanistic French (° 1508)
December 23rd: Henri Ier de Guise, Duke of Own way
December 24th: Louis II, Cardinal of Own way, archbishop-duke of Rheims

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