1592

1592 (MDXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1592nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 592nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 92nd year of the 16th century, and the 3rd year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1592, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1592 by topic
Arts and science
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Science
Leaders
  • Political entities
  • State leaders
  • Colonial governors
  • Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
  • Works
1592 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1592
MDXCII
Ab urbe condita2345
Armenian calendar1041
ԹՎ ՌԽԱ
Assyrian calendar6342
Balinese saka calendar1513–1514
Bengali calendar999
Berber calendar2542
English Regnal year34 Eliz. 1 – 35 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2136
Burmese calendar954
Byzantine calendar7100–7101
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4288 or 4228
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4289 or 4229
Coptic calendar1308–1309
Discordian calendar2758
Ethiopian calendar1584–1585
Hebrew calendar5352–5353
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1648–1649
 - Shaka Samvat1513–1514
 - Kali Yuga4692–4693
Holocene calendar11592
Igbo calendar592–593
Iranian calendar970–971
Islamic calendar1000–1001
Japanese calendarTenshō 20 / Bunroku 1
(文禄元年)
Javanese calendar1512–1513
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3925
Minguo calendar320 before ROC
民前320年
Nanakshahi calendar124
Thai solar calendar2134–2135
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1718 or 1337 or 565
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1719 or 1338 or 566
April 13–April 14: Siege of Busanjin

Events

January–June

July–December
  • July 20 – The Japanese capture the Korean capital Hanyang, causing Seonjo to request the assistance of Ming dynasty Chinese forces, who recapture the city a year later.
  • July 30 – Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
  • August – 1592–1593 London plague breaks out in England.
  • August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
  • August 14 – Battle of Hansan Island: The Korean navy defeats the Japanese.[3]
  • September 1 – Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese but fails to break their supply lines to Busan.
  • September 7 – The captured Madre de Deus enters Dartmouth harbour in England and is then subjected to mass theft.
  • October 5 – Siege of Jinju: The Korean navy is victorious over the Japanese.
  • November 3 – The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.
  • November 9 – The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate is promulgated.[4]
  • November 17 – John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.
  • November 12 – The Collegium Melitense is founded in Malta by Bishop Garagallo.

Date unknown

Births

January–June
Emperor Shah Jahan born on January 15
Sir John Eliot born on April 11
Francis Quarles born on May 8
Emperor Hong Taiji born on November 28
  • January 5 – Shah Jahan, 5th Mughal Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658 (d. 1666)
  • January 22
    • Philippe Alegambe, Belgian Jesuit priest and bibliographer (d. 1652)
    • Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)[5]
  • February 5 – Vincenzo della Greca, Italian architect (d. 1661)
  • February 22 – Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (d. 1637)
  • February 23 – Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch painter (d. 1663)
  • March 20 – Giovanni da San Giovanni, Italian painter (d. 1636)
  • March 28 – Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (d. 1670)[6]
  • April 4 – Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • April 9 – Jiří Třanovský, Czech priest and musician (d. 1637)
  • April 11 – John Eliot, Member of Parliament, Statesman, Vice-Admiral of Devon (d. 1632)
  • April 15 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
  • April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635)
  • April 24
    • Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mexico (d. 1667)
    • Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet, British baronet (d. 1664)
  • May 8 – Francis Quarles, English poet most famous for his Emblem book aptly entitled Emblems (d. 1644)
  • May 14 – Alice Barnham, wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (d. 1650)
  • June 7 – Balthasar Cordier, Belgian Jesuit exegete, editor (d. 1650)
  • June 9 – Jean de Brisacier, French Jesuit (d. 1668)
  • June 13
    • Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German noblewoman (d. 1642)
    • Tobias Michael, German composer and cantor (d. 1657)[7]

July–December

Date unknown
  • Catalina de Erauso, Spanish-Mexican nun and soldier (d. 1650)
  • Richard Bellingham, American colonial magistrate (d. 1672)
  • John Hacket, English churchman (d. 1670)
  • Angélique Paulet, French salonnière, singer, musician and actress (d. 1651)
  • Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist poet, calligrapher (d. 1673)
  • John Jenkins, English composer (d. 1678)
  • John Oldham, early English settler in Massachusetts (d. 1636)
  • Walatta Petros, saint in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (d. 1642)
  • Sara Copia Sullam, Italian poet and writer (d. 1641)

Probable
  • Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

Deaths
Saint Paschal Baylon died on May 17, 1592
King John III of Sweden died on November 17, 1592
  • January 5 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (b. 1516)
  • January 22 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (b. 1554)
  • January 27 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
  • February 2 – Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Spanish noble (b. 1540)
  • February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
  • March 4 – Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg and administrator of Ratzeburg (b. 1537)
  • March 5 – Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
  • March 22 – Johann VII, Duke of Mecklenburg, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1576–1592) (b. 1558)
  • April 8 – Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (b. 1544)
  • April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
  • April 18 – George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz (b. 1543)
  • April 21 – Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (b. 1552)
  • May 17 – Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
  • May 24 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German musician (b. 1530)
  • June 17 – Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (b. 1545)
  • July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
  • July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
  • July 6 – John George of Ohlau, Duke of Oława and Wołów (1586-1592) (b. 1552)
  • July 18 – Sibylle of Saxony, Duchess of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1515)
  • July 22 – Ludwig Rabus, German martyrologist (b. 1523)
  • July 26 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
  • August 20 – William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1535)
  • August 25
    • William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532)
    • Shimazu Toshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1537)
  • September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
  • September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533)[8]
  • September 20 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (b. 1524)
  • October 15 – Jean Vendeville, law professor, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1527)
  • October 19 – Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (b. 1528)
  • October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat (b. 1522)
  • November 17 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)[9]
  • November 27 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568)
  • December 3 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
  • Date unknown
    • Moderata Fonte, Italian poet, writer and philosopher (b. 1555)
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1532)
    • Katharina Gerlachin, German printer (b. 1520)
    • Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (b. 1532)

References
  1. Nicola Mary Sutherland (2002). Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion: The path to Rome. Intellect Books. p. 445. ISBN 978-1-84150-702-6.
  2. James S. Donnelly (2004). Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. Macmillan Reference USA. p. xxix. ISBN 978-0-02-865699-1.
  3. Stephen R. Turnbull (1996). The Samurai: A Military History. Psychology Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-873410-38-7.
  4. Metzger, Bruce M. (1977). "VII The Latin Versions". The Early Versions of the New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 349.
  5. Pierre Gassendi; Oliver Thill (2002). The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543). Xulon Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-59160-193-7.
  6. "John Amos Comenius | Czech educator | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  7. Paul E. Eisler (1972). World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684. Oceana Publications. p. 363. ISBN 978-0-379-16082-6.
  8. Jennifer Speake (2003). Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P. Taylor & Francis. p. 808. ISBN 978-1-57958-424-5.
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