1595

1595 (MDXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1595th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 595th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 16th century, and the 6th year of the 1590s decade. As of the start of 1595, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

1595 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1595 MDXCV
Ab urbe condita	2348
Armenian calendar	1044 ԹՎ ՌԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	6345
Balinese saka calendar	1516–1517
Bengali calendar	1002
Berber calendar	2545
English Regnal year	37 Eliz. 1 – 38 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2139
Burmese calendar	957
Byzantine calendar	7103–7104
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4291 or 4231     — to — 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4292 or 4232
Coptic calendar	1311–1312
Discordian calendar	2761
Ethiopian calendar	1587–1588
Hebrew calendar	5355–5356
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1651–1652
- Shaka Samvat	1516–1517
- Kali Yuga	4695–4696
Holocene calendar	11595
Igbo calendar	595–596
Iranian calendar	973–974
Islamic calendar	1003–1004
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 4 (文禄４年)
Javanese calendar	1515–1516
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3928
Minguo calendar	317 before ROC 民前317年
Nanakshahi calendar	127
Thai solar calendar	2137–2138
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1721 or 1340 or 568     — to — ཤིང་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Sheep) 1722 or 1341 or 569

Events

• January – Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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.
• July 21 – A Spanish expedition led by navigator and explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
• August 13 – Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, led by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great victory against the large army of the Turks, numbering over 150,000 men, led by Sinan Pasha. Wallachian tactical victory.
• October 26 – Battle of Giurgiu: Michael the Brave again defeats the Turkish army led by Sinan Pasha, pushing them on the right side of the Danube.
• December 9 – Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's Richard II.

Date unknown

• Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream in London.^[1]
• The Austrians start a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.

Births

• January 6 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (d. 1650)
• April 12 – Miles Hobart (d. 1639)
• June 9 – King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
• June 13 – Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1677)
• June 19 – Guru Har Gobind, the Sixth Sikh Guru (d. 1606)
• 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)
• December 27 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, hetman of Ukraine (d. 1657)
• 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)

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)
• September – Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (b. 1530)
• 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 (born 1534)
  • Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (b. c. 1530)
  • Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (b. 1530)
  • Thomas Whythorne, English writer and musician (b. 1528)