1595
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1595 (MDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1595th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 595th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1595, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s |
| Years: | 1592 1593 1594 – 1595 – 1596 1597 1598 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1595 MDXCV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2348 |
| Armenian calendar | 1044 ԹՎ ՌԽԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6345 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1516–1517 |
| Bengali calendar | 1002 |
| Berber calendar | 2545 |
| English Regnal year | 37 Eliz. 1 – 38 Eliz. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2139 |
| Burmese calendar | 957 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7103–7104 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4291 or 4231 — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4292 or 4232 |
| Coptic calendar | 1311–1312 |
| Discordian calendar | 2761 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1587–1588 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5355–5356 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1651–1652 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1516–1517 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4695–4696 |
| Holocene calendar | 11595 |
| Igbo calendar | 595–596 |
| Iranian calendar | 973–974 |
| Islamic calendar | 1003–1004 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunroku 4 (文禄４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1515–1516 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3928 |
| Minguo calendar | 317 before ROC 民前317年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 127 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2137–2138 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木马年 (male Wood-Horse) 1721 or 1340 or 568 — to — 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1722 or 1341 or 569 |
Events
change- January – Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- May 18 – The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).
- May 24 – The 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.
- July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by navigator and explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
- August 13 – Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, led by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great victory against the large army of the Turks, numbering over 150,000 men, led by Sinan Pasha. Wallachian tactical victory.
- October 26 – Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave again defeats the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasha, pushing them on the right side of the Danube.
- December 9 – Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's Richard II.
Date unknown
change- Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London.[1]
- The Austrians start a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
Births
change- January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (d. 1650)
- April 12 – Miles Hobart (d. 1639)
- June 9 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
- June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1677)
- June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (d. 1606)
- November 13 – George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)
- December 4 – Jean Chapelain, French poet (d. 1674)
- December 5 – Henry Lawes, English musician (d. 1662)
- December 27 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (d. 1657)
- date unknown
- Thomas Carew, English poet (d. 1645)
- Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (d. 1662)
- Jean Desmarets, French writer (d. 1676)
- Henry Herbert, English official (d. 1673)
- Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1661)
- Thomas May, English poet and historian (d. 1650)
- Henri II de Montmorency (d. 1632)
- Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (d. 1646)
- Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (d. 1617)
- Mikołaj Potocki, Polish politician (d. 1651)
- Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer (d. 1663)
- Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer (d. 1683)
- probable
- Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (d. 1624)
- Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor (d. 1656)
Deaths
change- January 15 – Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
- January 24 – Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
- February 12 – Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
- February 21 – Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (b. 1561)
- April 25 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
- May 25 – Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
- May 26 – Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
- August 24 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
- August 26 – Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
- September – Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (b. 1530)
- October 19 – Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (b. 1537)
- November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (b. 1548)
- November 12 – John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
- November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
- December 14 – Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
- date unknown
- Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman (born 1534)
- Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (b. c. 1530)
- Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (b. 1530)
- Thomas Whythorne, English writer and musician (b. 1528)
References
change- ↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 163–165. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.