1594

Year '1594' was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1594

Births

Deaths

Events of 1594

★ February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres.

★ March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.

★ April 17 - Canonization of Saint Hyacinth.

★ May - Banat Rebellion of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of St Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia

★ June - Sir Richard Hawkins arrives in the Bay of San Mateo, where he is attacked by the Spaniards.

★ June 11 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the creation of the Principalía [''i.e.'', elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].

Births

★ February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales (died 1612)

★ March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (died 1649)

★ May 1 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate

★ May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German general (died 1632)

★ June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (died 1665)

★ August 4 - Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, Polish noble (died 1654)

★ September 30 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (died 1661)

★ November 30 - John Cosin, English churchman (died 1672)

★ December 9 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (died 1632)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (died 1663)

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★ Philippe de Carteret II, Seigneur of Sark (died 1643)

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★ Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (died 1648)

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★ Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1638)

★ ''probable''

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★ Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (died 1665)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ February

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★ Barnabe Googe, English poet (born 1540)

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★ William Painter, English translator (born 1540)

★ February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born 1525)

★ April 29 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (born c1517)

★ May 31 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (born 1518)

★ June 3 - John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (born 1521)

★ June 7 - Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician executed for treason (born 1525)

★ June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532)

★ July - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (born 1519)

★ July 10 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (born 1554)

★ July 16 - Thomas Kyd, author of ''The Spanish Tragedy'' (born 1558)

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

★ October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal (born 1532)

★ November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (born 1535)

★ November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (born 1533)

★ December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (born 1512)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (born c1545)
: ''See also .''
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