1595

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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 v • d • e

Year 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

[edit] Events of 1595

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.
• October 26 – Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave defeats again the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasa, pushing them on the right side of the Danube.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

1595 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1595 MDXCV
Ab urbe condita	2348
Armenian calendar	1044 ԹՎ ՌԽԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-249 – -248
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
- Vikram Samvat	1650 – 1651
- 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
v • d • e

• 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.

[edit] 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)

See also Category:1595 deaths.