1597 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s
Years:	1594 1595 1596 – 1597 – 1598 1599 1600

Events

17 January – A court case in Guildford recorded evidence that a certain plot of land was used for playing “kreckett” (i.e., cricket) as early as 1550.
January 24 – Battle of Turnhout. Maurice of Nassau defeats a Spanish force under Jean de Rie of Varas in the Netherlands
February 5 – In Nagasaki, Japan, 26 people were martyred. They practiced Catholicism and were taken captive after all forms of Christianity were outlawed the previous year.
The first opera is considered to have been written.
Bali discovered by the Dutch explorer Cornelis Houtman
Abbas I ends the Uzbek raids on his lands.
Yaqob succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel as Emperor of Ethiopia
First edition of Francis Bacon's Essays published.