Unix Timestamp: -11708582400
Monday, December 21. 1598, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Illustrations of Ottoman Turkish and European riflemen, with detailed illustrations of their firearms, appear in Zhao Shizhen's book "Shenqipu" in this year, during the Ming Dynasty of China.

Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by caciquePelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spaniards troops in southern Chile all Spanish cities south of the Biobio river are eventually taken by the Mapuches, and all conquest of Mapuche territories by Europeans practically ceases, until the 1870s Pacification of Araucania.

The Parliament of England passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.

Philosopher Tommaso Canella organizes an uprising in Calabria against the rule of the Spanish viceroy he is captured, tortured and sentenced to 27 years in jail.