Events

• February 5 - 26 Catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan.
• April 9 - Spanish troops capture Calais
• July 14 - King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) was beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo Ceylon
• September 17 - The Spanish capture Amiens
• September 20 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
• First water closet, by Sir John Harrington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England
• King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.
• Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge founded

Births

• January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (died 1656)
• March 31 - René Descartes, French philosopher (died 1650)
• June 23 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (died 1641)
• June 29 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)
• July 12 - Michael I of Russia (died 1645)
• August 16 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (died 1632)
• August 18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
• August 19 - Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia (died 1662)
• September - James Shirley, English dramatist (died 1666)
• September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (died 1687)
• December 21 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
• Niccolo Amati, Italian violin maker (died 1684)
• Moses Amyraut, French protestant theologian (died 1664)
• Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect (died 1657)
• Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (died 1656)
• Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)
• Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (died 1643)
• Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (died 1661)
• Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (died 1639)
• Richard Mather, American clergyman (died 1669)
• Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (died 1633)
• Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)

See also Category:1596 births.

Deaths

• January 28 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (born 1540)
• February 17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (born 1536)
• March 23 - Henry Unton, English diplomat (born 1557)
• May 6 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535)
• September 15 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born 1535)
• October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
• November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (born 1539)
• November 10 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
• Thoinot Arbeau, French priest and writer (born 1519)
• Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)
• Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
• William Gibson, English Catholic martyr
• Arima Kihei, Japanese swordsman
• Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr
• Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (born 1523)
• Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)
• Hattori Hanzo, Ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (born 1541)

See also Category:1596 deaths.

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