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Year '1596' was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1596

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1596

January - June

★ February 14 - Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.

★ April 9 - Spanish troops capture Calais

★ May 18 - Willem Barents leaves Vlie on his third and final Arctic voyage.

★ June - Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught to parley with the local Irish lords.

July - December

★ July 5 - An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.

★ July 14 - King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) was beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo Ceylon

★ September 17 - The Spanish capture Amiens

★ September 20 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

★ October 24/26 - Battle of Keresztes

Undated

★ The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the Authority of the Pope.

★ The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.

★ King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.

★ Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is founded.

★ The Black Death hits parts of Europe.

Births

★ January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (died 1656)

★ February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect (died 1657)

★ March 31 - René Descartes, French philosopher and Mathematician (died 1650)

★ May 9 - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter

★ June 23 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (died 1641)

★ June 29 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)

★ July 12 - Michael I of Russia (died 1645)

★ August 16 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (died 1632)

★ August 18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)

★ August 19 - Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia (died 1662)

★ September

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★ James Shirley, English dramatist (died 1666)

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★ Moses Amyraut, French Protestant theologian (died 1664)

★ September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (died 1687)

★ November 1 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)

★ December 21

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★ Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)

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★ Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (died 1656)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Nicolò Amati, Italian violin maker (died 1684)

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★ Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (died 1643)

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★ Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (died 1661)

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★ Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (died 1639)

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★ Richard Mather, American clergyman (died 1669)

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★ Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (died 1633)

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★ Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)
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Deaths

★ January 28 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (born 1540)

★ February 17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (born 1536)

★ March 23 - Henry Unton, English diplomat (born 1557)

★ May 6 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535)

★ July 23 - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)

★ September 15 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born 1535)

★ October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)

★ November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (born 1539)

★ November 10 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)

★ November 29

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★ William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr

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★ Hattori Hanzo, Ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (born 1541)

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★ Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (born 1572)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Blanche Parry, Personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1508)

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★ Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)

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★ Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (born 1523)

★ ''probable''

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★ Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)
: ''See also .''