This article is about the year 1593.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
Decades: | 1560s 1570s 1580s – 1590s – 1600s 1610s 1620s |
Years: | 1590 1591 1592 – 1593 – 1594 1595 1596 |
1593 by topic |
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Gregorian calendar | 1593 MDXCIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2346 |
Armenian calendar | 1042 ԹՎ ՌԽԲ |
Assyrian calendar | 6343 |
Bahá'í calendar | -251–-250 |
Bengali calendar | 1000 |
Berber calendar | 2543 |
English Regnal year | 35 Eliz. 1 – 36 Eliz. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2137 |
Burmese calendar | 955 |
Byzantine calendar | 7101–7102 |
Chinese calendar | 壬辰年十一月廿九日 (4229/4289-11-29) — to —
癸巳年閏十一月初九日(4230/4290-intercalary 11-9) |
Coptic calendar | 1309–1310 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1585–1586 |
Hebrew calendar | 5353–5354 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1649–1650 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1515–1516 |
- Kali Yuga | 4694–4695 |
Holocene calendar | 11593 |
Iranian calendar | 971–972 |
Islamic calendar | 1001–1002 |
Japanese calendar | Bunroku 2 (文禄2年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3926 |
Minguo calendar | 319 before ROC 民前319年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2136 |
Year 1593 (MDXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January – Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.w
- June 22 – Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- July 29 - The Long War breaks out in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
Date unknown
- Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.
- Henry Constable's Spiritual Sonnetts are written.
- The book Controversiae written by Robert Bellarmine.
Births
- March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
- March 25 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- April – Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (d. 1631)
- April 3 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)
- April 4 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
- April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
- May 19 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
- July 8 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
- August 9 – Izaak Walton, English writer (d. 1683)
- August 29 – Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
- September 22 – A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (d. 1650)
- November 1 – Abel Servien, French diplomat (d. 1659)
- date unknown
- Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (d. 1685)
- Louis Barbier, French bishop (d. 1670)
- William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's son (d. 1630?)
- Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (d. 1641)
- Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1631)
- Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (d. 1645)
- Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1678)
- Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (d. 1651)
- Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1657)
Deaths
- February 6
- Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
- Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
- March 23 – Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550)
- April 6 – John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged)
- April 9 – Fredrick Hawrn, English painter
- May 29 – John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr (b. 1559)
- May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
- June 25 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541)
- July 11 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
- September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (b. 1531)
- date unknown
- Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536)
- William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534)
- Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble
- Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518)