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Year '1593' was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1593

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1593

January - June

★ February 2 - The Battle of Piątek is a victory for Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski.

★ 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.

July - December

★ July 25 - King Henry IV of France returns to Catholicism and is recognized as King in most of France.

★ October 24 - Alleged teleportation of Gil Perez.

Undated

★ Outbreak of the Long War in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.

★ Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.

Births

★ March 13 - Georges de La Tour, French painter (died 1652)

★ March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)

★ April - Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (died 1631)

★ 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)

★ November 1 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (died 1659)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (died 1685)

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★ Louis Barbier, French bishop (died 1670)

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★ William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's bastard son (died 1630?)

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★ Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)

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★ Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)

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★ Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (died 1645)

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★ Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (died 1615)

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★ Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (died 1678)

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★ Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (died 1651)

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★ Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (died 1657)

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★ Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (died 1658)
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Deaths

★ February 6

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★ Jacques Amyot, French writer (born 1513)

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★ 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)

★ July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (born 1527)

★ September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (born 1531)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (born 1536)

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★ William Harrison, English clergyman (born 1534)

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★ Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble

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★ Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (born 1518)
: ''See also .''