1592

Years: 1589 1590 1591 - 1592 - 1593 1594 1595
Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII.
April 4 - The future Henry IV of France, King designated by Henry III of France, announce in a declaration, so-called "Expedient" his intention to follow an instruction in the catholic religion in the deliberateness to convert. (Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)
Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university
Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy
Seven-Year War between Korea and Japan starts
March 14 - The most accurate pi day in history until March 14, 15926 AD.

January 5 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (died 1655)
March 28 - Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (died 1670)
April 11 - Sir John Eliot, English statesman (died 1632)
July 10 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (died 1628)
October 22 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1657)
November 5 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)
Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (died 1672)
François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (died 1662)
Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (died 1632)
Charles Chauncy, Anglo-American clergyman and educator (died 1672)
Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (died 1652)
Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (died 1637)
John Hacket, English churchman (died 1670)
Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (died 1660)
John Jenkins, English composer (died 1678)
Henry King, poet (died 1669)
Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1639)
John Oldham, early Puritan settler in Massachusetts (died 1636)
Francis Quarles, English poet (died 1644)
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic Archbishop
Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (died 1635)
Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch Governor of New Netherlands (died 1672)
Hong Taiji, Emperor of China (died 1643)

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