1592

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

Events of 1592

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 14 - Pi day to the sixth digit!
* 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. "(Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)"
* April 13 - The Siege of Busan(Part Of the first Japanese invasions of Korea) begins.
* April 24 - Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans
* April 28 - Battle of Ch'ungju: Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
* May 29 - Turtle ships make their first appearance in action at the Battle of Sacheon.

July - December

* July 3 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.
* July 30 - Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
* October 7 - The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.
* November 17 - John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.

Undated

* The "Collegium Melitense" (now known as the University of Malta) is founded by Bishop Garagallo.
* Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded.
* Thomas Kyd publishes "The Spanish Tragedy".
* The Seven-Year War between Korea and Japan starts.
* 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 (d. 1666)
* January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)
* February 20 - Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (d. 1637)
* March 28 - Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (d. 1670)
* April 11 - Sir John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
* April 22 - Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635)
* May - Francis Quarles, English poet (d. 1644)
* May 15 - Sir Ruselincia Anderson
* June 22 - Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic Archbishop
* July 10 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
* August 1 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (d. 1662)
* August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
* October 22 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
* November 5 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
* December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676)
*"date unknown"
**Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (d. 1672)
**Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
**John Hacket, English churchman (d. 1670)
**Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (d. 1673)
**John Jenkins, English composer (d. 1678)
**Henry King, poet (d. 1669)
**Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1639)
**John Oldham, early Puritan settler in Massachusetts (d. 1636)
**Hung Taiji, Emperor of China (d. 1643)
*"probable"
**Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

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Deaths

* February - Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer (b. 1555)
* February 13 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (b. c. 1515)
* 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 painter (b. 1528)
* May 17 - Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
* July 1 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
* 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" - Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
* "date unknown" - Nicholas White, Irish lawyer and government official (b. 1532)

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