1595

Year 1595 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1595

January - June

* January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet" is probably first performed.
* May 18 - The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).
* May 24 - The "Nomenclator" of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
* June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française: Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.

July - December

* 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 Wallachia.
* August 13 - Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, led by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great victory against the vast army of the Turks, numbering over 150,000 men, led by Sinan Pasha.

Undated

* William Shakespeare writes "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
* Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
* The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
* Spanish navigator and explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans) the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.

Births

* January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (d. 1650)
* June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
* June 13 - Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1677)
* September 21 - Adrian Fearney, British pirate (d. 1641)
* November 13 - George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)
* December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (d. 1674)
* December 5 - Henry Lawes, English musician (d. 1662)
*"date unknown"
**Thomas Carew, English poet (d. 1645)
**Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (d. 1662)
**Jean Desmarets, French writer (d. 1676)
**Henry Herbert, English official (d. 1673)
**Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1661)
**Thomas May, English poet and historian (d. 1650)
**Henri II de Montmorency (d. 1632)
**Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (d. 1646)
**Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (d. 1617)
**Mikołaj Potocki, Polish politician (d. 1651)
**Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer (d. 1663)
**Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer (d. 1683)
*"probable"
**Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (d. 1624)
**Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor (d. 1656)
**Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (d. 1644)

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Deaths

* January 15 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
* January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
* February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
* February 21 - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (b. 1561)
* April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
* May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
* May 26 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)
* August 24 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
* August 26 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)
* October 19 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (b. 1537)
* November 5 - Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (b. 1548)
* November 12 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)
* November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
*December 14 - Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
*"date unknown"
**Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman (born1534)
**Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (b. 1530)
**Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (b. c. 1530)
**Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (b. 1530)

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