1594
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Centuries: | 15th century - 16th century - 17th century |
Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s |
Years: | 1591 1592 1593 - 1594 - 1595 1596 1597 |
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Year 1594 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).
[edit] Events of 1594
- 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 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 by the Spaniards.
- 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 [i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].
[edit] Births
Gregorian calendar | 1594 MDXCIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2347 |
Armenian calendar | 1043 ԹՎ ՌԽԳ |
Bahá'í calendar | -250 – -249 |
Berber calendar | 2544 |
Buddhist calendar | 2138 |
Burmese calendar | 956 |
Chinese calendar | 4230/4290-intercalary 11-10 (癸巳年閏十一月初十日) — to —
4231/4291-11-20(甲午年十一月二十日) |
Coptic calendar | 1310 – 1311 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1586 – 1587 |
Hebrew calendar | 5354 – 5355 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1649 – 1650 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1516 – 1517 |
- Kali Yuga | 4695 – 4696 |
Holocene calendar | 11594 |
Iranian calendar | 972 – 973 |
Islamic calendar | 1002 – 1003 |
Japanese calendar | Bunroku 3 (文禄3年) |
Korean calendar | 3927 |
Thai solar calendar | 2137 |
- 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 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.
[edit] 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.