Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1560s  1570s  1580s  - 1590s -  1600s  1610s  1620s
Years:	1591 1592 1593 - 1594 - 1595 1596 1597

1594 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

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 - Saint Hyacinth is canonized.
• May - The 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 recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way for the creation of the Principalía i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].

Births

• February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612)
• March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (d. 1649)
• May 1 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
• May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
• June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
• August 4 - Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, Polish noble (d. 1654)
• September 30 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (d. 1661)
• November 30 - John Cosin, English churchman (d. 1672)
• December 9 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
• date unknown
  • John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663)
  • Philippe de Carteret II, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1643)
  • Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648)
  • Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638)
• probable
  • Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665)

See also Category:1594 births.

Deaths

• February
  • Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540)
  • William Painter, English translator (b. 1540)
• February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
• April 29 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517)
• May 31 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
• June 3 - John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (b. 1521)
• June 7 - Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525)
• June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
• July - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519)
• July 10 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554)
• July 16 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
• September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (b. 1531)
• October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
• November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (b. 1535)
• November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (b. 1533)
• December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512)
• date unknown
  • John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545)
  • John Freeston

See also Category:1594 deaths.