1594
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1594 (MDXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1594
Dated
- February 27 – Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres.
- March 21 – Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
- April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, earl of Derby is found murdered. At the time of his death, he was, after his mother, second in line to the throne of England.
- April 17 – Saint Hyacinth is canonized.
- May – The Banat Rebellion of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of St Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia.
- June – Sir Richard Hawkins arrives in the Bay of San Mateo, where he is attacked and captured by 2 Spanish ships.
- June 11 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way for the creation of the Principalía.
- July 22 – After a 2-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Republic
Undated
- In Amsterdam, the Compagnie van Verre is created, with the goal of breaking the Portuguese monopoly on spice trade.
Births
- February 19 – Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612)
- March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (d. 1649)
- May 1 – John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
- May 16 – Jennifer Grace, Singer and Composer
- May 29 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
- June 15 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- August 4 – Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, Polish noble (d. 1654)
- September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (d. 1661)
- November 30 – John Cosin, English churchman (d. 1672)
- December 9 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- date unknown
- John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663)
- Philippe de Carteret II, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1643)
- Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648)
- Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638)
- probable
- Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665)
- See also Category:1594 births.
Deaths
- February
- Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540)
- William Painter, English translator (b. 1540)
- February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
- April 29 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517)
- May 31 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
- June 3 – John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (b. 1521)
- June 7 – Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525)
- June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
- July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519)
- July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554)
- July 16 – Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
- September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (b. 1531)
- October 16 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
- November 22 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (b. 1535)
- November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (b. 1533)
- December 2 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512)
- date unknown
- John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545)
- John Freeston
- See also Category:1594 deaths.