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Year '1592' 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).

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Events of 1592

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1592

January - June

★ 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.

★ April 4 - The future Henry IV of France, King designated by Henry III of France, announce in a declaration, so-called "Expedient" his intention to follow an instruction in the catholic religion in the deliberateness to convert. ''(Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)''

★ April 13 - Beginning of the Siege of Busan.

★ April 24 - The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans at the Battle of Sangju.

★ April 28 - In the Battle of Ch'ungju, Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.

★ May 29 - Turtle ships make their first appearance in action, at the Battle of Sacheon.

July - December

★ July 3 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.

★ July 30 - Alonso de Sotomayor, petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.

★ October 7 - The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.

★ November 27 - John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.

Undated

★ Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.

★ Thomas Kyd publishes ''The Spanish Tragedy''.

★ 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.

Births

★ January 5 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)

★ January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655)

★ February 20 - Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (died 1637)

★ March 28 - Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (died 1670)

★ April 11 - Sir John Eliot, English statesman (died 1632)

★ April 22 - Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (died 1635)

★ May - Francis Quarles, English poet (died 1644)

★ may 15 - Sir Ruselincia Anderson was born

★ 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 (died 1662)

★ August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (died 1628)

★ October 22 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1657)

★ November 5 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)

★ December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)

★ ''date unknown''

★ 8Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (died 1672)

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★ Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)

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★ John Hacket, English churchman (died 1670)

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★ Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (d. 1673)

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★ John Jenkins, English composer (died 1678)

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★ Henry King, poet (died 1669)

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★ Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1639)

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★ John Oldham, early Puritan settler in Massachusetts (died 1636)

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★ Hung Taiji, Emperor of China (died 1643)

★ ''probable''

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★ Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (died 1632)
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Deaths

★ February - Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer (born 1555)

★ February 13 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (born c1515)

★ February 29 - Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (born 1540)

★ March 5 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (born 1499)

★ April 13 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)

★ April 27 - Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (born 1528)

★ May 17 - Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (born 1540)

★ July 1 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (born c1547)

★ July 26 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (born 1524)

★ August 25 - William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (born 1532)

★ September 3 - Robert Greene, English writer (born 1558)

★ September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (born 1533)

★ October 28 - Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat

★ November 27

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★ King John III of Sweden (born 1537)

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★ Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (born 1568)

★ December 3 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1545)

★ ''date unknown'' - Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (born 1559)
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