1595

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)

See also 1595 births.

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)

See also 1595 deaths.