1597
| Years: 1594 1595 1596 – 1597 – 1598 1599 1600 | |
| Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s | |
| Centuries: 15th century – 16th century – 17th century 1597 state leaders | |
Events
- 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
Births
- December 23, Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (d. 1639)
- Pieter Saenredam, Dutch painter
Deaths
- June 20 – Willem Barents, Dutch navigator and explorer
- October 4 – Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
- October 9 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
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