1594

Year 1594 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1594

* February 27 - Henry IV is crowned King of France at Chartres.
* March 21 - Henry IV enters his capital of Paris for the first time.
* April 17 - Saint Hyacinth is canonized.
* May - The Banat Rebellion of Serbs against Ottoman rule ends with the public burning of St Sava's bones in Belgrade, Serbia.
* June - Sir Richard Hawkins arrives in the Bay of San Mateo, where he is attacked by the Spaniards.
* June 11 - Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves the way for the creation of the Principalía ["i.e.", elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines] .

Births

* February 19 - Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612)
* March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch poet (d. 1649)
* May 1 - John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate
* May 29 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, German general (d. 1632)
* June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
* August 4 - Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł, Polish noble (d. 1654)
* September 30 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (d. 1661)
* November 30 - John Cosin, English churchman (d. 1672)
* December 9 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
*"date unknown"
**John Bramhall, English Anglican clergyman and controversialist (d. 1663)
**Philippe de Carteret II, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1643)
**Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (d. 1648)
**Tomasz Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1638)
*"probable"
**Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer (d. 1665)

: "See also ."

Deaths

* February
**Barnabe Googe, English poet (b. 1540)
**William Painter, English translator (b. 1540)
* February 2 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
* April 29 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer (b. c. 1517)
* May 31 - Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
* June 3 - John Aylmer (English constitutionalist), English divine (b. 1521)
* June 7 - Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician (executed for treason) (b. 1525)
* June 14 - Orlande de Lassus, Flemish composer (b. 1532)
* July - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and humanist (b. 1519)
* July 10 - Paolo Bellasio, Italian composer and organist (b. 1554)
* July 16 - Thomas Kyd, author of "The Spanish Tragedy" (b. 1558)
* September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, Lord High Steward (b. 1531)
* October 16 - William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
* November 22 - Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (b. 1535)
* November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman (b. 1533)
* December 2 - Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer (b. 1512)
*"date unknown"
**John Johnson, English lutenist and composer (b. c. 1545)
**John Freeston: "See also ."