Year '1595' 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).
Events of 1595
January - June
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January 29 or
January 30 -
William Shakespeare's play ''
Romeo and Juliet'' is probably first performed.
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William Shakespeare writes ''
A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
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May 18 - The
Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the
Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).
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May 24 - ''Nomenclator'' of
Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
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June 9 -
Battle of Fontaine-Française.
Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
July - December
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October 28 -
Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian forces under
Sigismund Bathory, allied to the Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie.
Undated
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Mehmed III succeeds
Murad III as
Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire
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Austrians incite a rebellion against the
Ottomans in
Bulgaria.
★ The
Spanish navigator and
explorer,
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for
Europeans), the first known islands of
Polynesia, the
Marquesas.
Births
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January 6 -
Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (died
1650)
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June 9 - King
Wladislaus IV of Poland (died
1648)
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June 13 -
Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (died
1677)
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November 13 -
George William, Elector of Brandenburg (died
1640)
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December 4 -
Jean Chapelain, French poet (died
1674)
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December 5 -
Henry Lawes, English musician (died
1662)
★ ''date unknown''
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Thomas Carew, English poet (died
1645)
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Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (died
1662)
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Jean Desmarets, French writer (died
1676)
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Henry Herbert, English official (died
1673)
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Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (died
1661)
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Thomas May, English poet and historian (died
1650)
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Henri II de Montmorency (died
1632)
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Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (died
1646)
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Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (died
1617)
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Mikołaj Potocki, Polish politician (died
1651)
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Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer (died
1663)
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Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer (died
1683)
★ ''probable''
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Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (died
1624)
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Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor (died
1656)
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (died
1644)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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January 15 -
Murad III,
Ottoman Sultan (born
1546)
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January 24 - Archduke
Ferdinand II of Austria (born
1529)
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February 12 -
Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born
1553)
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February 21 -
Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born
1561)
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April 25 -
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born
1544)
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May 25 -
Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (born
1567)
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May 26 -
Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born
1515)
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August 24 -
Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born
1546)
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August 26 -
Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (born
1531)
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October 19 -
Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born
1537)
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November 5 -
Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born
1548)
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November 12 -
John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (born
1532)
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November 29 -
Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (born
1533)
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December 14 -
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born
1535)
★ ''date unknown''
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Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman (born
1534)
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Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (born
1530)
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Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (born c
1530)
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Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (born
1530)
: ''See also .''