1594

Events of 1594

February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres.
March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
April 17 - Canonization of Saint Hyacinth.
May - Banat Rebellion of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of St Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia
June - Sir Richard Hawkins arrives in the Bay of San Mateo, where he is attacked by the Spaniards.
June 11 - Philip II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the creation of the Principalía [i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines].*Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden starts to rule.

February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (born 1525)
April 29 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (born c1517)
May 31 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (born 1518)
June 3 - John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (born 1521)
June 7 - Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician executed for treason (born 1525)
June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (born 1532)
July - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (born 1519)
July 10 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (born 1554)
July 16 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (born 1558)
September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (born 1531)
October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal (born 1532)
November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (born 1535)
November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (born 1533)
December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (born 1512)
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