Pensacola in northwestern Florida. Photo credit to TheCustomOfLife

In the year 1559, Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey (Jan 15), John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation (May 2), a Spanish missionary colony arrives from Vera Cruz (Mexico) at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U.S. (Aug 15), the University of Geneva is founded by John Calvin - and all these fine people were born:

1559-0101 Virginia Eriksdotter* noble/recognized illegitimate daughter of King Erik XIV and his official royal mistress Agda Persdotter - Kalmar Castle, Sweden (1633/74)

1559-02xx Johann Tserclaes* German field marshal who commanded the Catholic League’s forces in the Thirty Years' War - Castle Tilly, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire (1632/73)

1559-0218 Isaac Casaubon* French classical scholar/philologist - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1614/55)
1559-0223 Julius Gyllenhielm* civil servant/son of John III of Sweden - Stockholm, Sweden (1581/22)

1559-0312 Christoph Brouwer* Jesuit priest/ecclesiastical historian - Arnhem, the Netherlands (1617/c.58)

1559-0512 Johann Georg Gödelmann* German jurist/diplomat/ demonological writer - Tuttlingen, Württemberg (1611/51)
1559-0514 Nurhaci* regarded as the founding father of the Qing dynasty- Hetu Ala, Manchuria (1626/67) birth date in dispute

1559-0702 Margareta Brahe* courtier/political activist - Sundholmen, Sweden (1638/78)
1559-0722 Lawrence of Brindisi* (b Giulio Cesare Russo) Catholic priest/theologian - Brindisi, Kingdom of Naples (1619/60)
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1559-0818 Frederik van den Bergh* Lord of Boxmeer/soldier in the Eighty Years' War - Ulft, Spanish Netherlands (1618/59)

1559-0921 Cigoli* (b Lodovico Cardi) painter/architect - Cigoli, Tuscany (1613/53)

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1559-1112 Yaza Datu Kalaya* Crown Princess of Burma/poet - Pegu, Toungoo Empire (1603/44)
1559-1113 Al-Mansur al-Qasim* an Imam of Yemen/the founder of a Zaidi kingdom - Yemen (1620/60)
1559-1113 Albert VII* Archduke of Austria - Wiener Neustadt, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire (1621/61)

1559-1214 Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola (B) historiographer/ dramatist/poet - Barbastro, Spain (1613/53)

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