1595

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).

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Events of 1595

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1595

January - June

★ January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'' is probably first performed.

★ William Shakespeare writes ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.

★ May 18 - The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).

★ May 24 - ''Nomenclator'' of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

★ June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.

July - December

★ 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

★ Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

★ The 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

★ January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (died 1650)

★ June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (died 1648)

★ June 13 - Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (died 1677)

★ November 13 - George William, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1640)

★ December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (died 1674)

★ 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)
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Deaths

★ January 15 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1546)

★ January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (born 1529)

★ February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born 1553)

★ February 21 - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born 1561)

★ April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)

★ May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (born 1567)

★ May 26 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born 1515)

★ August 24 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 1546)

★ August 26 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (born 1531)

★ October 19 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1537)

★ November 5 - Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born 1548)

★ November 12 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)

★ November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (born 1533)

★ December 14 - Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman (born1534)

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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 c1530)

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★ Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (born 1530)
: ''See also .''