1597

1597 (MDXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1597th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 597th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 16th century, and the 8th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1597, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1560s  1570s  1580s  – 1590s –  1600s  1610s  1620s
Years:	1594 1595 1596 – 1597 – 1598 1599 1600

1597 in other calendars

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

Events

• 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.