1592

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s

Years: 1587 1588 1589 1590 1591 - 1592 - 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598

• January - Pope Clement VIII succeeds Pope Innocent IX.
• Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university
• Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy

Births

• January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist.
• March 23 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher.
• August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
• December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
• Wilhelm Schickard[?], builder of "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine, what was capable of adding and subtracting up to 6 digit numbers.
• Sir John Eliot, English statesman.
• Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the British Empire.
• Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist.

Deaths

• September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker.
• November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden
• Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately)
• Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor.
• Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer.
• December - Alessandro Farnese[?], Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.
• Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer