1597

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  • 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.

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