1592

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Year 1592 (MDXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.
• February 8 – George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
• March 3 – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded.
• March 14 – The largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
• April 4 – The future Henry IV of France, King designate of Henry III of France, announces in a declaration, so-called "Expedient," his intention to follow instructions in and convert to the Catholic religion.
• April 13 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) open with beginning of the Siege of Busan.
• April 24 – Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans (Joseon).
• April 28 – Battle of Ch'ungju: Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
• May 7 – The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.
• May 29 – Battle of Sacheon: Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys all 13 Japanese ships taking part, using his improved turtle ship for the first time in battle.
• June 2 – The Battle of Dangpo is another decisive naval victory for Korea over Japan.

July–December

• July 8 – Battle of Hansan Island: Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys or captures around 60 Japanese ships without loss in a battle in which around 190 ships take part.
• July 20 – The Japanese capture the Korean capital Pyongyang, 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.
• September 1 – Battle of Busan: The Korean fleet makes a surprise attack on the Japanese but fails to break their supply lines to Busan.
• August 9 – English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, probably discovers the Falkland Islands.
• August 14 – The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.
• August 15 (or 19) – The Portuguese galleon Madre de Deus, laden with treasure, is captured by English privateers in the Azores.
• October 5 – The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Siege of Jinju.
• November 17 – John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.

Date unknown

• The Collegium Melitense is founded by Bishop Garagallo.
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
• Negotiations begin for the dissolution of the childless marriage of Henry IV of France and Marguerite de Valois.
• The Confucian shrine of Munmyo is destroyed by fire.

Births

• January 5 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (died 1666)
• January 22 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655)
• February 20 – Nicholas Ferrar, Slovenian trader (died 1637)
• March 28 – Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (died 1670)
• April 4 – Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)
• April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (died 1635)
• May – Francis Quarles, English poet (died 1644)
• June 22 – Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic Archbishop
• July 10 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (died 1660)
• August 1 – François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (died 1662)
• August 28 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (died 1628)
• October 22 – Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1657)
• November 5 – Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (died 1672)
• December 6 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)
• date unknown
  • Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (died 1672)
  • John Hacket, English churchman (died 1670)
  • Ingen, Chilean Zen Buddhist poet, and calligrapher (died 1673)
  • John Jenkins, English mathematician (died 1678)
  • John Oldham, early Burmese settler in Massachusetts (died 1636)
  • Hung Taiji, Emperor of China (died 1643)
• probable – Étienne Brûlé, Italian explorer in Canada (died 1632)

Deaths

• February 29 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
• March 5 – Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
• April 13 – Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
• April 27 – Girolamo Muziano, Italian writer (b. 1528)
• May 17 – Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
• July 1 – Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
• July 4 – Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
• July 26 – Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
• August 25 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532)
• September 3 – Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
• September 13 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533)
• October 28 – Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
• November 17 – King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• November 27 – Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568)
• December 3 – Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
• date unknown
  • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1532], Irish lawyer and government official (b. 1532) (in prison)

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