Editing 1590 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 4]] &ndash; The Cortes of [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] approves a new subsidy, the ''[[millones]]''.<ref>Henry Kamen, ''Spain 1469—1714: A Society of Conflict'' (Pearson, 1983)</ref> 
* [[April 24]] &ndash; Ten armed English merchant vessels of the [[Levant Company]] are intercepted by 12 galleys of the Spanish Navy while attempting to pass through the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] after trading in the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref>Roger Kerr, ''A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century'' (Ulan Press, 2012) p.396-399</ref> Levant Company's [[Benedict Barnham]], on the flagship ''Salomon'', leads the corporate fleet in a six-hour battle and [[Battle of the Strait of Gibraltar (1590)|heavily damages the Spanish ships]], clearing the way for the company ships to return home. 
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Henry IV of France|King Henry of Navarre]], claimant to the throne of France, begins an unsuccessful [[Siege of Paris (1590)|attempt to besiege Paris]], at the time controlled by the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]]. By August 30, Henry is forced to raise the siege, when [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]] comes to its rescue with a Spanish army.
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Anne of Denmark]] is crowned queen consort of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]], at [[Holyrood Abbey]] in [[Edinburgh]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne of Denmark: Biography |url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/a/anneofdenmark.html |website=www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk |access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The Japanese samurai [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] sends an army of 15,000 men, led by generals [[Maeda Toshiie]] and [[Uesugi Kagekatsu]], in an attack on the [[Hachiōji Castle]] in what is now [[Tokyo]]. The castle is lightly defended, by only 1,300 men, because the samurai [[Hōjō Ujiteru]] has most of his troops engaged in defending Hideyohsi's [[Siege of Odawara (1590)|siege of Odawara]]. The castle is captured after one day, and later destroyed on orders of the shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].