1595

Years: 1592 1593 1594 - 1595 - 1596 1597 1598
Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.
May 24 - 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.
September 15 - Group of pupils of Edinburgh High School barricade themselves in because of a dispute about holidays. When adults break in, pupil William Sinclair shoots city bailie John McMorane dead. Boys are arrested but acquitted later
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.

January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (died 1650)
June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (died 1648)
December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (died 1674)
December 5 - Henry Lawes, English musician (died 1662)
Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (died 1624)
Bihari, Indian writer (died 1664)
Thomas Carew, English poet (died 1645)
Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (died 1662)
Jean Desmarets, French writer (died 1676)
Henry Herbert, English official (died 1673)
Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1661)
Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (died 1677)
Thomas May, poet and historian (died 1650)
Henri II de Montmorency (died 1632)
Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (died 1646)
Pocahontas, Algonquian princess
Mikolaj Potocki, Polish politician (died 1651)
Albrycht Stanislaw Radziwill, Lithuanian chancellor (died 1656)
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (died 1644)
Robert Sempill the younger, English royalist writer
Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer
Georg Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1640)

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