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- James BurbageJames BurbageJames Burbage was an English actor, theatre impresario, and theatre builder in the English Renaissance theatre. He built The Theatre, the facility famous as the first permanent dedicated theatre built in England since Roman times...
builds The TheatreThe TheatreThe Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Shoreditch , just outside the City of London. It was the second permanent theatre ever built in England, after the Red Lion, and the first successful one...
, the first permanent public playhouse in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, ushering in the great age of Elizabethan drama.
New books
- Jean Boudin - Six livres de la République
- George Pettie - A Petite Palace of Pettie His Pleasure
Births
- January 12 - Petrus ScriveriusPetrus ScriveriusPetrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium....
, Dutch historian (d. 1660) - May 27 - Caspar SchoppeCaspar SchoppeCaspar Schoppe was a German controversialist and scholar.-Life:He was born at Neumarkt in the upper Palatinate and studied at several German universities. Having converted to Roman Catholicism in about 1599, he obtained the favour of Pope Clement VIII, and distinguished himself by the virulence of...
, German controversialist (d. 1649) - June 6 - Giovanni DiodatiGiovanni DiodatiGiovanni Diodati or Deodati was a Swiss-born Italian theologian and translator. He was the first person to translate the Bible into Italian from Hebrew and Greek sources...
, Bible translator (d. 1649) - October - John MarstonJohn MarstonJohn Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods...
, English poet and dramatist (d. 1634) - October 30 - Enrico Caterino DavilaEnrico Caterino DavilaEnrico Caterino Davila was an Italian historian and diplomat.-Life:Born in Sacco, near Padua, he descended from a Spanish noble family. His name was given in honour of Henry III of France and Catherine de' Medici....
, Italian historian (d. 1631) - date unknown
- William AmesWilliam AmesWilliam Ames was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist...
, English philosopher (d. 1633) - Johann BogermannJohann Bogermannthumb|200px|right|Johann BogermanJohann Bogerman was a Frisian Protestant divine.He was born in Uplewert , the son of a preacher. From 1591 onwards, he studied in Franeker, Heidelberg, Geneva, Zürich, Lausanne, Oxford and Cambridge. In 1599, he became pastor in Sneek, 1603 in Enkhuizen and 1604 in...
, Dutch translator (d. 1637)
- William Ames
Deaths
- January 19 - Hans SachsHans SachsHans Sachs was a German meistersinger , poet, playwright and shoemaker.-Biography:Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg . His father was a tailor. He attended Latin school in Nuremberg...
, German poet and dramatist (b. 1494) - February 10 - Guilielmus XylanderGuilielmus XylanderWilhelm Xylander was a German classical scholar and humanist....
, German classical scholar (b. 1532) - May 2 - Bartolomé CarranzaBartolomé CarranzaBartolomé Carranza , Spanish theologian and Archbishop of Toledo, sometimes called de Miranda or de Carranza y Miranda, who spent much of his later life imprisoned on charges of heresy....
, Spanish theologian (b. 1503) - June 30 - Franciscus SonniusFranciscus SonniusFranciscus Sonnius was a theologian during the time of the contrareformation, an advisor of the pope and the first bishop of Bois-Le-Duc and later of Antwerp. His real name was Van de Velde, but in later years he called himself after his native place, Zon in Brabant. He came from the same noble...
, Flemish theologian (b. 1506) - October 14 - Konrad HeresbachKonrad HeresbachKonrad Heresbach was a German Reformer, Calvinist, humanist and educator.-Biography:Konrad or Conrad Heresbach was born in Manor Herzbach near Mettmann as the youngest of seven children to the wealthy holder of the Herzbach estate. In 1503, he left Mettmann to attend the Latin ecclesiastical...
, Calvinist writer (b. 1496) - date unknown - Basil FaberBasil FaberBasil Faber , Lutheran schoolmaster and theologian, was born in Żary , in lower Lusatia, in 1520. In 1538 he entered the University of Wittenberg, studying as pauper gratis under Philipp Melanchthon....
, German theologian (b. 1520)