1597

• February 5 - 26 Japanese martyrs were executed in Nagasaki .
• April 23 - The premiere of William Shakespeare's play Windsor Pranksters , which was attended by the English Queen Elizabeth I, was held .
• Winter - The brutal suppression of the uprising in Finland.
• 1597–1598 - The last outbreak of the Crocan uprising, partly suppressed, partly stopped with the help of concessions.
• The government entered into negotiations with the peasants of Upper Austria, while brutally suppressing an uprising in Lower Austria. May - Rudolph's decree on limiting levies and reducing corvee. Part of the rebels stopped the fight. End of the year - Suppression of the uprising.
• 1597-1651 - Duke of Bavaria Maximilian I.
• April - The Japanese resumed hostilities. The Korean fleet is defeated. The Japanese transferred troops to Korea . The king appointed fleet commander Lee Sun Shin . In Korea, arrived troops and fleets from China. October - Lee Sun Sin with a small force inflicted a serious defeat on the Japanese at Cape Usuen.
• November - In the battle at Chiksan (near Seoul), the Japanese were defeated by the Korean army. The Japanese retreated to the coast, plundering many cities along the way, including burning Gyeongju .
• Hideyoshi's decree against missionary propaganda in Japan.
• Galileo created the first thermometer .
• Fyodor I Ioannovich introduced the “ less-than-summer ”: in cases of ownership of the peasants, their export, the return of the fugitive peasants, the 5-year term for their petitioned petition owners to take effect.

See also: Category: Born in 1597

• Francesco Barberini - Italian Curial Cardinal.
• Jean-Louis Geese de Balzac - French writer.
• Giovanni Battista Goderna is an Italian astronomer .
• Martin Opitz (1597–1639), German poet.
• Peter the Grave - Bishop of the Constantinople Orthodox Church , Metropolitan of Kiev, Galician and All Russia, Exarch of the Constantinople Throne (April 28, 1632 - 1647 ).
• Peter Jans Sanredam is a Dutch artist.
• Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp - Duke of Holstein-Gottorp . The eldest son of Johann Adolf Holstein-Gottorp and Augusta Danish .

See also: Category: Dead in 1597

• June 20 - Willem Barents , Dutch navigator and explorer. The head of three Arctic expeditions, the purpose of which was to search for the northern sea route to the East Indies .
• Alfonso II d'Este - Duke of Ferrara , Modena and Reggio ( 1559 - 1597 ).
• Jose de Ancieta is a Jesuit missionary , a participant in the founding of the cities of São Paulo ( January 25, 1554 ) and Rio de Janeiro ( March 1, 1554 ). A writer and poet , the recognized founder of Brazilian literature . Compiled the first grammar of the Tupi language .
• Ashikaga Yoshiaki is the 15th and last shogun of the Muromachi shogunate . Rules from 1568 to 1573 . He remained in the post of shogun by 1588 .
• Won Gün is a Korean general and admiral, one of the commanders of Korean troops in the Image War .
• Peter Canizius is a Dutch religious leader, a member of the Jesuit order , canonized by the Catholic Church in 1925 . Counted among the teachers of the Church . Uncle Heinrich Canis .
• Catalina Michaela of Austria - Spanish infante and duchess of Savoy, wife of Karl Emmanuel I of Savoy , mother of Victor Amadeus I.
• Edward Kelly - English medium , mystic and alchemist .
• Paul Miki is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church , a martyr canonized along with other Japanese martyrs who died for their faith under Japanese political figure Toyotomi Hideyoshi .
• Francesco Patrici is an Italian philosopher .
• Prospero Fontana - Italian Renaissance artist, father of the artist Lavinia Fontana .