1592

	1592 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
	Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

Year 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).

[edit] Events of 1592

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.
March 14 – At 6:53:58 a.m it was Pi Second on Pi Day (03-14-1592 6:53:58)
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 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).

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.

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)

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)