1595

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

1595 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture – Art –

Literature – Music – Poetry – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

1595 (MDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1595 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1595

January–June

• January 29 or January 30 – William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
• 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 due to his rashness.

July–December

• August 13 – Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, led by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great victory against the vast 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.

Undated

• William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
• 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

1595 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1595 MDXCV
Ab urbe condita	2348
Armenian calendar	1044 ԹՎ ՌԽԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-249 – -248
Bengali calendar	1002
Berber calendar	2545
Buddhist calendar	2139
Burmese calendar	957
Byzantine calendar	7103 – 7104
Chinese calendar	甲午年十一月廿一日 (4231/4291-11-21) — to — 乙未年十二月初一日 (4232/4292-12-1)
Coptic calendar	1311 – 1312
Ethiopian calendar	1587 – 1588
Hebrew calendar	5355 – 5356
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1651 – 1652
- Shaka Samvat	1517 – 1518
- Kali Yuga	4696 – 4697
Holocene calendar	11595
Iranian calendar	973 – 974
Islamic calendar	1003 – 1004
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 4 (文禄4年)
Korean calendar	3928
Thai solar calendar	2138

• January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (d. 1650)
• June 9 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1677)
• September 21 – Adrian Fearney, British pirate (d. 1641)
• 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)
• 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)

See also Category:1595 births.

Deaths

• 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)
• 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 (born1534)
  • Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (b. 1530)
  • Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (b. c. 1530)
  • Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (b. 1530)
  • Thomas Whythorne, English author and musician (b. 1528)

See also Category:1595 deaths.