1596

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Years:	1593 1594 1595 - 1596 - 1597 1598 1599

1596 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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).

[edit] Events of 1596

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.

The first water closet, by Sir John Harrington, 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.

**1596 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1596 MDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2349
Armenian calendar	1045 ԹՎ ՌԽԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-248 – -247
Buddhist calendar	2140
Chinese calendar	4232/4292-12-2 (乙未年十二月初二日) — to — 4233/4293-11-13 (丙申年十一月十三日)
Ethiopian calendar	1588 – 1589
Hebrew calendar	5356 – 5357
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1651 – 1652
- Shaka Samvat	1518 – 1519
- Kali Yuga	4697 – 4698
Holocene calendar	11596
Iranian calendar	974 – 975
Islamic calendar	1004 – 1005
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 5 (文禄5年) — changed to — Keichō 1 (慶長元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2256 (皇紀2256年)
- Jōmon Era	11596
Julian calendar	1641
Korean calendar	3929
Thai solar calendar	2139
v • d • e

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 (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 - Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia (died 1662)
September
- James Shirley, English dramatist (died 1666)
- 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
- Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
- Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (died 1656)
date unknown
- Niccolo Amati, Italian violin maker (died 1684)
- Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (died 1643)
- Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (died 1661)
- Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (died 1639)
- Richard Mather, American clergyman (died 1669)
- Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (died 1633)
- Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)

See also Category:1596 births.

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
- William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr
- Hattori Hanzo, Ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (born 1541)
- Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (born 1572)
date unknown
- Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)
- Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman (born 1584)
- Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (born 1523)
probable
- Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)

See also Category:1596 deaths.