1593

Years: 1590 1591 1592 - 1593 - 1594 1595 1596

Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1593 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1593 MDXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2346
Armenian calendar	1042 ԹՎ ՌԽԲ
Assyrian calendar	6343
Balinese saka calendar	1514–1515
Bengali calendar	1000
Berber calendar	2543
English Regnal year	35 Eliz. 1 – 36 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2137
Burmese calendar	955
Byzantine calendar	7101–7102
Chinese calendar	壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4290 or 4083     — to — 癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4291 or 4084
Coptic calendar	1309–1310
Discordian calendar	2759
Ethiopian calendar	1585–1586
Hebrew calendar	5353–5354
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1649–1650
- Shaka Samvat	1514–1515
- Kali Yuga	4693–4694
Holocene calendar	11593
Igbo calendar	593–594
Iranian calendar	971–972
Islamic calendar	1001–1002
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 2 (文禄２年)
Javanese calendar	1513–1514
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3926
Minguo calendar	319 before ROC 民前319年
Nanakshahi calendar	125
Thai solar calendar	2135–2136
Tibetan calendar	阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 1719 or 1338 or 566     — to — 阴水蛇年 (female Water-Snake) 1720 or 1339 or 567

1593 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

• May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• June 22 - Ottoman Empire defeated in Battle of Sisak, their first defeat in Europe.
• July 25 - King Henry IV of France returns to Catholicism, and is recognized as King in most of France.
• Outbreak of the Long War in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
• Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.

Births

• March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
• April 3 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (died 1633)
• April 4 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (died 1669)
• April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (died 1641)
• May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (died 1678)
• July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died 1653)
• August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer (died 1683)
• September 22 - A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (died 1650)
• Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (died 1685)
• Louis Barbier, French bishop (died 1670)
• Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)
• Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
• Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)
• Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (died 1645)
• Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (died 1615)
• Joannes de Laet, Flemish geographer and merchant (died 1649)
• Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (died 1678)
• Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (died 1631)
• Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (died 1651)
• Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (died 1657)
• Abel Servien, French diplomat (died 1659)
• Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (died 1658)
• Georges de La Tour, French painter (died 1652)

See also Category:1593 births.

Deaths

• February 6 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (born 1513)
• February 6 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (born 1517)
• March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (born 1550)
• April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged)
• May 29 - John Penry, Welsh protestant martyr (born 1559)
• May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (born 1564)
• June 25 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (born 1541)
• September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (born 1531)
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (born 1527)
• Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (born 1536)
• William Harrison, English clergyman (born 1534)
• Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble
• John White, English surveyor and explorer (born 1537)

See also Category:1593 deaths.