1595

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

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

Years: 1590 1591 1592 1593 1594 - 1595 - 1596 1597 1598 1599 1600

• January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time
• June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française[?]. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
• 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

Births

• December - Henry Lawes, English musician.
• December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet.
• Count Johann von Werth, German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War.
• Bohdan Chmielnicki, a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian) Cossack hetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland which began in 1648, and for instigating a massacre of the Jews.
• Andrej Cergol[?], Slovene mathematician.
• Jean Desmarets, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
• Ladislaus IV of Poland.

Deaths

• James Stewart, Earl of Arran[?].
• Torquato Tasso, Italian poet.
• Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet.