1590

Late Renaissance period

1590 refers to the year in the Common Era, late in the sixteenth century.

Like other year numbers, it functions as a noun or adjective identifying when something occurred: a map from 1590, the 1590 edition.

The 1590s saw Shakespeare's early plays and the height of Elizabethan England.

numerical

year

Twelve-month duration

  • dateSpecific day or outing
  • numberSymbol representing quantity
  • sequenceOrdered succession of elements

address · model · code · serial · identifier · designation · reference · catalog · index · timestamp

historical

Renaissance

European cultural reawakening

colonialism · exploration · reformation · Counter-Reformation · Baroque · Galileo · Spenser · Marlowe · microscope · Venice

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