1593

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Years:	1590 1591 1592 – 1593 – 1594 1595 1596

1593 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1593 in other calendars

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)
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)

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