Timeline Sunday 9 September 1590

Events on Sunday 9 September 1590 1

• 1590 Siege of Paris lifted by the Duke of Parma Spanish intervention saves the Catholic League capital Henry IV's siege of League-held Paris through the summer of 1590 caused mass starvation in the city, with residents reportedly reduced to eating bread made from ground bones. Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, marched his Spanish army from the Netherlands and maneuvered Henry into abandoning the siege by early September. The relief kept Paris out of Henry's hands for several more years.