1593
Years:
1590
1591
1592
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1593
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1594
1595
1596
Decades
:
1560s
1570s
1580s
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1590s
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1600s
1610s
1620s
Centuries
:
15th century
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16th century
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17th century
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Events
May 18
- Playwright
Thomas Kyd
's accusations of
heresy
lead to an arrest warrant for
Christopher Marlowe
.
July 25
- King
Henry IV of France
returns to Catholicism, and is recognized as King in most of France.
Outbreak of the Long War in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
Mihai Viteazul
becomes prince of
Walachia
.
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Births
April 3
-
George Herbert
, English poet and orator (†
1633
)
April 13
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Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford
, English statesman.
July 8
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Artemisia Gentileschi
, painter.
August 9
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Izaak Walton
, English writer.
Matthaus Meriah, German illustrator.
Paolo Agostino
, Italian musician.
Louis Barbier
, French bishop.
Jacob Jordaens
, Flemish painter.
Andrej Kobav, Slovene mathematician.
A. Matthäus Merian
, Swiss cartographer.
Georges de La Tour
, painter.
Mumtaz Mahal
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Deaths
March 23
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Henry Barrowe
, English Puritan and Separatist.
April 6
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John Greenwood
, English Puritan and Separatist.
May 30
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Christopher Marlowe
, English playwright
Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
William Harrison
, English clergyman.
Henry Stanley
, 4th Earl of Derby.
Giussepe Arcimboldo
, Italian painter.