Software
Free
Download
Audio
Graphics
Utilities
Internet
Screen Savers
Games
Development Tools
Business
Audio
Home/Hobby
Education
|
Events
January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time
June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
October 28 - Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian forces under Sigismund Bathory, allied to the Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie.
Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
Births
December - Henry Lawes, English musician.
December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet.
Count Johann von Werth, German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War.
Bohdan Chmielnicki, a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian) Cossack hetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland which began in 1648, and for instigating a massacre of the Jews.
Andrej Cergol, Slovene mathematician.
Jean Desmarets, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
Ladislaus IV of Poland.
Pocahontas
Deaths
January 15 - Murat III, Ottoman Emperor
January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet
James Stewart, Earl of Arran.
Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet.
Category:1595
|