1594

1594 (MDXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1594th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 594th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 16th century, and the 5th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1594, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1594 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
1594 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1594
MDXCIV
Ab urbe condita2347
Armenian calendar1043
ԹՎ ՌԽԳ
Assyrian calendar6344
Balinese saka calendar1515–1516
Bengali calendar1001
Berber calendar2544
English Regnal year36 Eliz. 1 – 37 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2138
Burmese calendar956
Byzantine calendar7102–7103
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
4290 or 4230
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
4291 or 4231
Coptic calendar1310–1311
Discordian calendar2760
Ethiopian calendar1586–1587
Hebrew calendar5354–5355
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1650–1651
 - Shaka Samvat1515–1516
 - Kali Yuga4694–4695
Holocene calendar11594
Igbo calendar594–595
Iranian calendar972–973
Islamic calendar1002–1003
Japanese calendarBunroku 3
(文禄３年)
Javanese calendar1514–1515
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3927
Minguo calendar318 before ROC
民前318年
Nanakshahi calendar126
Thai solar calendar2136–2137
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
1720 or 1339 or 567
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
1721 or 1340 or 568
June 5: First voyage of Willem Barents in search of the Northeast Passage.

Events

January–June
  • March 21 – Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
  • April 17 – Hyacinth of Poland is canonized.
  • May
    • Uprising in Banat of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of Saint Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia.
    • Nine Years' War (Ireland): Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Hugh Roe O'Donnell form an alliance to try to overthrow English domination.[1]
  • June 5 – Willem Barents makes his first voyage to the Arctic Ocean, in search of the Northeast Passage.
  • June 11 – Philip II of Spain recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way for the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía.
  • June 22–23 – Anglo-Spanish War: Action of Faial – In the Azores, an English attempt to capture the large Portuguese carrack Cinco Chagas, reputedly one of the richest ever to set sail from the East Indies, causes it to explode with the loss of all but 13 of the 700 on board, and all the treasure.

July–December
  • July 1 or July 2 – Anglo-Spanish War: Action of Atacames Bay – English privateer Richard Hawkins in the Dainty is attacked and captured by a Spanish squadron off Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
  • July 3 – The Ayutthayan–Cambodian War (1591–1594) concludes when Naresuan, ruler of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, sacks Longvek, capital of Cambodia.
  • July 22 – After a two-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Dutch Republic.
  • August 30 – Diplomats meet at Stirling Castle for the Masque at the baptism of Prince Henry.[2]
  • October 9 – The Campaign of Danture, which began on July 5 as part of the Sinhalese–Portuguese War, concludes with a decisive victory by forces of the Kingdom of Kandy over the Portuguese Empire, reversing near-total control of Sri Lanka by Portugal.

Date unknown
  • St. Paul's College is founded in Macau by Jesuits, being the first western style university in the far east.
  • In Amsterdam, the Compagnie van Verre is created, with the goal of breaking the Portuguese monopoly on spice trade.
  • Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.
  • The city of Pompeii is rediscovered after its loss following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Births

January–June
Maria Tesselschade Visscher

July–December
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

Date unknown
  • John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663)
  • Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648)
  • Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638)

Probable
  • Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665)

Deaths
Tintoretto
Martin Frobisher
Gerardus Mercator

References
  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 233–238. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Clare McManus, Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court, 1590–1618 (Manchester, 2002), p. 83.
  3. Ronald H. Fritze; William B. Robison (1996). Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-313-28391-8.
  4. Clara Marvin (October 15, 2013). Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: A Research Guide. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-135-61754-7.
  5. Abel Lefranc (1988). Under the Mask of William Shakespeare. Merlin. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-86303-352-0.
  6. Tom Nichols (1999). Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity. Reaktion Books. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-86189-120-4.
  7. Belgian Laces. Belgian Researchers, Incorporated. 1993. p. 2.
  8. Coote, Charles Henry (1889). "Frobisher, Martin" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 281–284.
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