1592

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1560s  1570s  1580s  – 1590s –  1600s  1610s  1620s
Years:	1589 1590 1591 – 1592 – 1593 1594 1595

1592 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

1592 (MDXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1592 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1592

January–June

• January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.
• February 8 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
• April 4 – The future Henry IV of France, King designate of Henry III of France, announces in a declaration, so-called "Expedient," his intention to follow instructions in and convert to the Catholic religion. (Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)
• April 13 – The Siege of Busan (Part Of the first Japanese invasions of Korea) begins.
• April 24 – Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans.
• April 28 – Battle of Ch'ungju: Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
• May 7 – The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.
• May 29 – Turtle ships make their first appearance in action at the Battle of Sacheon.

July–December

• July 30 – Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
• August 14 – The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.
• August 15 – (or 19) The Portuguese galleon Madre de Deus, laden with treasure, is captured by English privateers.
• November 17 – John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.
• October 5 – The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Siege of Jinju (1592).

Undated

• The Collegium Melitense (now known as the University of Malta) is founded by Bishop Garagallo.
• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded.
• The Seven-Year War between Korea and Japan starts.
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
• Negotiations begin for the dissolution of the childless marriage of Henry IV of France and Marguerite de Valois.
• The Confucian shrine of Munmyo is destroyed by fire.

Births

1592 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1592 MDXCII
Ab urbe condita	2345
Armenian calendar	1041 ԹՎ ՌԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-252 – -251
Bengali calendar	999
Berber calendar	2542
Buddhist calendar	2136
Burmese calendar	954
Byzantine calendar	7100 – 7101
Chinese calendar	辛卯年十一月十七日 (4228/4288-11-17) — to — 壬辰年十一月廿八日 (4229/4289-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1308 – 1309
Ethiopian calendar	1584 – 1585
Hebrew calendar	5352 – 5353
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1648 – 1649
- Shaka Samvat	1514 – 1515
- Kali Yuga	4693 – 4694
Holocene calendar	11592
Iranian calendar	970 – 971
Islamic calendar	1000 – 1001
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 20Bunroku 1 (文禄元年)
Korean calendar	3925
Thai solar calendar	2135

• January 5 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
• January 22 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)
• February 20 – Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (d. 1637)
• March 28 – Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (d. 1670)
• April 11 – Sir John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
• April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635)
• May – Francis Quarles, English poet (d. 1644)
• May 15 – Sir Ruselincia Anderson
• June 22 – Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic Archbishop
• July 10 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
• August 1 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (d. 1662)
• August 28 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
• October 22 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
• November 5 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
• December 6 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676)
• date unknown
  • Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (d. 1672)
  • Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • John Hacket, English churchman (d. 1670)
  • Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (d. 1673)
  • John Jenkins, English composer (d. 1678)
  • Henry King, poet (d. 1669)
  • Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1639)
  • John Oldham, early Puritan settler in Massachusetts (d. 1636)
  • Hung Taiji, Emperor of China (d. 1643)
• probable
  • Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

Deaths

• February – Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer (b. 1555)
• February 13 – Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (b. c. 1515)
• February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
• March 5 – Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
• April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
• April 27 – Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (b. 1528)
• May 17 – Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
• July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
• July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
• July 26 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
• August 25 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532)
• September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
• September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533)
• October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
• November 17 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• November 27 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568)
• December 3 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
• date unknown – Nicholas White, Irish lawyer and government official (b. 1532) (in prison)