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1595 - Events

• January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time.
• William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.
• May 24 - 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.
• September 15 - Group of pupils of Edinburgh High School barricade themselves in because of a dispute about holidays. When adults break in, pupil William Sinclair shoots city bailie John McMorane dead. Boys are arrested but acquitted later
• 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.
• The Spanish navigator and explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans), the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.

1595 - Births

• January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (died 1650)
• June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (died 1648)
• December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (died 1674)
• December 5 - Henry Lawes, English musician (died 1662)
• Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (died 1624)
• Bihari, Indian writer (died 1664)
• Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1645)
• Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (died 1662)
• Jean Desmarets, French writer (died 1676)
• Henry Herbert, English official (died 1673)
• Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1661)
• Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (died 1677)
• Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
• Henri II de Montmorency (died 1632)
• Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (died 1646)
• Pocahontas, Algonquian princess
• Mikolaj Potocki, Polish politician (died 1651)
• Albrycht Stanislaw Radziwill, Lithuanian chancellor (died 1656)
• Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (died 1644)
• Robert Sempill the younger, English royalist writer
• Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer
• Georg Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1640)

See also Category:1595 births.

1595 - Deaths

• January 15 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1546)
• January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (born 1529)
• February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (born 1553)
• February 21 - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (born 1561)
• April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (born 1544)
• May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (born 1567)
• May 26 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (born 1515)
• August 24 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (born 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 (born 1537)
• November 12 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (born 1532)
• November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)
• Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman
• Jeremias II of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
• Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (born 1530)
• Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (born None)
• Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (born 1548)

See also Category:1595 deaths.

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