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| Years: 1592 1593 1594 - 1595 - 1596 1597 1598 | |
| Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1595 state leaders | |
Events
- January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time.
- 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.
- 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 - 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)
- Andrej Cergol, Slovenian mathematician
- Miles Corbet, English puritan MP (died 1662)
- Jean Desmarets, French writer (died 1676)
- Henry Herbert, English master of the revels (died 1673)
- Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1661)
- Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian doctor and scientist (died 1677)
- Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
- Henri II de Montmorency (died 1632)
- Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (died 1646)
- Jerzy Ossolinski, Polish nobleman (died 1650)
- Zofia Ostrogska, Polish nobleman (died 1622)
- Pocahontas, Algonquian Indian
- Mikolaj Potocki, Polish nobleman (died 1651)
- Albrycht Stanislaw Radziwill, Polish magnate (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 Emperor (born 1546)
- January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further 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)
- October 19 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1537)
- November 12 - John Hawkins, English navigator (born 1532)
- James Stewart, Earl of Arran
- 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)
- Anthony of Portugal
- Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (born None)
- Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born 1548)af:1595
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