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1595 state leaders
Events
January 30
-
William Shakespeare
's
Romeo and Juliet
is performed for the first time
June 9
- Battle of Fontaine-Française .
Henry IV of France
defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
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
.
Births
June 9
-
Wladislaus IV of Poland
.
December -
Henry Lawes
, English musician.
December 4
-
Jean Chapelain
, French poet.
Count Johann von Werth
, German general of cavalry in the
Thirty Years' War
.
Bohdan Chmielnicki
, a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian)
Cossack
hetman
of
Ukraine
, noted for his revolt against
Poland
which began in
1648
, and for instigating a massacre of the
Jews
.
Andrej Cergol , Slovene mathematician.
Jean Desmarets
, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
date unknown
-
Pocahontas
Deaths
January 15
-
Murat III
,
Ottoman Emperor
January 24
- Archduke
Ferdinand II of Austria
, Regent of
Tyrol
and
Further Austria
February 12
-
Archduke Ernest of Austria
, governor of the
Spanish Netherlands
April 25
-
Torquato Tasso
, Italian poet
James Stewart, Earl of Arran .
Luis Barahona de Soto
, Spanish poet.
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