1597
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s |
| Years: | 1594 1595 1596 – 1597 – 1598 1599 1600 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1597 MDXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2350 |
| Armenian calendar | 1046 ԹՎ ՌԽԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6347 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1518–1519 |
| Bengali calendar | 1004 |
| Berber calendar | 2547 |
| English Regnal year | 39 Eliz. 1 – 40 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2141 |
| Burmese calendar | 959 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7105–7106 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4293 or 4233 — to — 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4294 or 4234 |
| Coptic calendar | 1313–1314 |
| Discordian calendar | 2763 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1589–1590 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5357–5358 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1653–1654 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1518–1519 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4697–4698 |
| Holocene calendar | 11597 |
| Igbo calendar | 597–598 |
| Iranian calendar | 975–976 |
| Islamic calendar | 1005–1006 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 2 (慶長２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1517–1518 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3930 |
| Minguo calendar | 315 before ROC 民前315年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 129 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2139–2140 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1723 or 1342 or 570 — to — 阴火鸡年 (female Fire-Rooster) 1724 or 1343 or 571 |
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1597 (MDXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.
Events
[change | change source]- 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.