1594

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Year 1594 (MDXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• February 27 – Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres.
• March 21 – Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
• April 16 – Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby is found poisoned. At the time of his death, he was, after his mother, second in line to the throne of England.
• April 17 – Saint Hyacinth is canonized.
• May
  • The Banat Rebellion of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of Saint Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Nine Years' War: In 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 – First voyage of Willem Barents in the Arctic Ocean in search of the North-east 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 24–July 1 – Action of San Mateo Bay: English privateer Richard Hawkins in the Dainty is attacked and captured by a Spanish squadron off Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

July–December

• July 22 – After a 2-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Republic

Date unknown

• St. Paul's College, Macau 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.

Births

• January 16 – Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (d. 1658)
• February 18 – Philippe de Carteret II, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1643)
• February 19 – Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612)
• March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (d. 1649)
• May 1 – John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
• May 29 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
• June 15 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
• August 4 – Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, Polish noble (d. 1654)
• September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (d. 1661)
• November 30 – John Cosin, English churchman (d. 1672)
• December 9 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
• 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

• February
  • Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540)
  • William Painter, English translator (b. 1540)
• February 2 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
• April 29 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517)
• May 31 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
• June 3 – John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (b. 1521)
• June 7 – Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525)
• June 14 – Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
• June 29 – Niels Kaas, Danish chancellor (b. 1535)
• July – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519)
• July 10 – Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554)
• July 16 – Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
• September 25 – Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (b. 1531)
• October 16 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
• November 22 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (b. 1535)
• November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (b. 1533)
• December 2 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512)
• date unknown – John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545)

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