1593
1593 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. As of the start of 1593, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- January - Siege of Pyongyang : A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.
- January 18 - Siamese King Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, kills Burmese Crown Prince Mingyi Swa on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon, Chulasakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.
- January 27 - The Roman Inquisition opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
- February 2 - Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.
- February 12 - Battle of Haengju: Korea defeats Japan.
- March 7 - The Uppsala Synod discontinues; the Liturgical Struggle between the Swedish Reformation and Counter-Reformation ends in Sweden.
- March 14 - The Pi Day, giving the most digits of Pi when written in mm/dd/yyyy format.
- April 18 - Anglo-Spanish War: Naval Battle of Blaye in the Gironde estuary sees a Spanish victory over the blockading English fleet, allowing the Spanish to relieve the French Catholic garrison of Blaye.
- After April - William Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed in London from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times.
- May 5 - "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays.
- May 12 - English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's.
- May 18 - A warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe is issued. On May 20 he presents himself to the Privy Council.
- May 30 - Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford.
- June 7 - Battle of Salbertrand in Piedmont: Victory of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, over the Spanish of Rodrigue Alvarez of Toledo, allies of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy.
- June 22 - Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- July 25 - As he promised in January, Henry IV of France abjures Protestantism at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Legend attributes to him the saying Paris vaut bien une messe.
- July 29 - The Long War breaks out in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
- October 24-25 - Supposed date of the event described in the 1593 transported soldier legend.
Date unknown
- Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.
- Robert Bellarmine's Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos concludes publication in Ingolstadt.
- Henry Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes are written.
- Khwaja Usman takes shelter in Goyghor Mosque after the Afghan rebellion against the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, Man Singh I.
Births
January–June
- January 1 - Sun Chuanting, Ming Dynasty general
- January 10 - Prince Maurice of Savoy, Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy
- February 8 - Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, French Catholic Cardinal
- February 24 - Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, English noble
- March 1 - Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg, German Catholic cardinal
- March 13 - Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter
- March 20 - Jean de La Haye, French preacher and biblical scholar
- March 22 - Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer
- March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary who travelled to Canada in 1625
- April - Mumtaz Mahal, Queen of India
- April 3 - George Herbert, Welsh-born English poet
- April 4 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman
- April 12 - Nicholas Martyn, English politician
- April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman
- April 19 - Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician
- April 27 - Jérôme Lalemant, French Jesuit priest and missionary to Canada
- May 2
- * John Forbes, Scottish theologian
- * Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Italian princess
- May 5 - Cesare Monti, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan
- May 19
- * Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter
- * Claude Vignon, French painter
- June 3 - Richard Knightley, English politician
- June 8 - George I Rákóczi, Hungarian prince of Transylvania
- June 22 - Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, Parliamentarian politician and military figure in the English Civil War
- June 23 - Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of Saxe-Altenburg
- June 24 - Abraham von Franckenberg, German writer
July–December
- July 5 - Achille d'Étampes de Valençay, Knight of Malta
- July 8
- * Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter
- * Peter Sainthill, English politician
- July 20 - Henry Ernest, Count of Stolberg, then count of Stolberg-Ilsenburg
- July 30 - William, Margrave of Baden-Baden
- August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer
- August 12 - Jonathan Brewster, American settler
- August 30 - Noël Juchereau, Quebec pioneer
- September 5 - Orazio Riminaldi, Italian painter
- September 8 - Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman
- September 20 - Gottfried Scheidt, German composer
- September 22 - A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer
- September 26 - Francis Osborne, English writer
- October 6 - Jobst Herman, Count of Schaumburg
- October 9 - Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician
- October 13 - Sixtinus Amama, Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist
- October 23 - Michael Warton, English politician
- October 27 - Christoffer Urne, Governor General of Norway
- November 1 - Abel Servien, French diplomat
- November 25 - Alain de Solminihac, French bishop and beatified person
- December 5 - Liborius Wagner, German Roman Catholic priest
- December 11 - Sir William Airmine, 1st Baronet, English politician
- December 12
- * Adam Christian Agricola, German Evangelical preacher
- * Nathaniel Bacon, English politician
Date unknown
- Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary
- Louis Barbier, French bishop
- William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's son
- Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford
- Miguel de Ayatumo, Filipino Jesuit seminarian
- Claudia Rusca, Italian composer, singer, and organist
- Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
- Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant
- Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary
- Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman
- Sir George Radcliffe, English politician
- Kimura Shigenari, Japanese samurai
- Giovanni Battista Pacetti, Italian painter
Deaths
- January 8 - Mingyi Swa, Burmese crown prince
- January 11 - Scipione Gonzaga, Italian Catholic cardinal
- February 6
- * Jacques Amyot, French writer
- * Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan
- March 8 - Paul Luther, German scientist
- March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist
- April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist
- April 24 - William Harrison, English clergyman
- May 29 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant
- May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright
- June 3 - Katarina Bengtsdotter Gylta, Swedish abbess
- June 25 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist
- July 4 - Min Phalaung, Burmese monarch
- July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter
- September 5 - Andreas von Auersperg, Carniolan noble and military commander in the battle of Sisak
- September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, English nobleman, diplomat and politician
- October 25 - Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, Spanish colonial administrator
- November 11 - Albert, Count of Nassau-Weilburg
- November 20 - Hans Bol, Flemish artist
- date unknown
- * Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet
- * Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble
- * Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist