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| Years: 1592 1593 1594 - 1595 - 1596 1597 1598 | |
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Events
- January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
- William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- May 24 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
- September 15 - Group of pupils of Edinburgh High School barricade themselves in because of a dispute about holidays. When adults break in, pupil William Sinclair shoots city bailie John McMorane dead. Boys are arrested but acquitted later
- October 28 - Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian forces under Sigismund Bathory, allied to the Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie.
- Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
- The Spanish navigator and explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans), the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.
Births
- January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (died 1650)
- June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (died 1648)
- December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (died 1674)
- December 5 - Henry Lawes, English musician (died 1662)
- Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (died 1624)
- Bihari, Indian writer (died 1664)
- Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1645)
- Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (died 1662)
- Jean Desmarets, French writer (died 1676)
- Henry Herbert, English official (died 1673)
- Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1661)
- Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (died 1677)
- Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
- Henri II de Montmorency (died 1632)
- Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (died 1646)
- Pocahontas, Algonquian princess
- Mikolaj Potocki, Polish politician (died 1651)
- Albrycht Stanislaw Radziwill, Lithuanian chancellor (died 1656)
- Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (died 1644)
- Robert Sempill the younger, English royalist writer
- Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer
- Georg Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1640)
Deaths
- January 15 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1546)
- January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (born 1529)
- February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born 1553)
- February 21 - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born 1561)
- April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
- May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (born 1567)
- May 26 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born 1515)
- August 24 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546)
- August 26 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
- October 19 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1537)
- November 12 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)
- November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
- Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman
- Jeremias II of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
- Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (born 1530)
- Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (born None)
- Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born 1548)
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