Major Events
- Jan 1 Korean naval commander Admiral Yi Sun-sin begins his famous war diary "Nanjung ilgi" (included in UNESCO's Memory of the World 2013) [1]
- Jan 30 Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
- Mar 14 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.14159265358)
- May 29 Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship
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Who Died in 1592
- Jan 5 William V, 'the rich, Duke of Cleves and humanist, dies at about 75
- Jan 6 John Casimir of Simmern, German prince and regent for his nephew, Elector Frederick IV (b. 1543)
- Jan 16 Johan Casimir, German prince, and mercenary leader (occupied Ghent, 1578), dies at 48
- Feb 13 Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
- Feb 29 Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
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Famous Weddings in 1592
- May 31 King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland marries first wife Anne of Austria at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków,
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