Major Events
- Jan 5 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
- Jan 27 Vatican opens blasphemy and theological heresy trial against Italian scholar and wayward friar Giordano Bruno; proceedings drag on for over 7 years [1]
- Mar 1 The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
- Mar 23 English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
- Mar 25 Recantation of Loos, Dutch scholar Coinelius Loos recants his earlier written protest against witchcraft persecution in Trier, Germany before officials in Brussels
- May 18 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe
- Jun 22 Battle of Sisak: Christian Habsburg troops defeat the Bosnian Ottoman army under Hasan Pasha, in Central Croatia, wiping out the army and killing their leader
- Jun 28 Earl Mauritius conquers Geertruidenberg
- Jul 25 France's Protestant King Henry IV converts to Roman Catholic faith
- Aug 20 'The Massacre of the Innocents': In Timbuktu prominent citizens rounded up and some killed by invading Moroccan forces who then pillage the city, ending its golden age
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Did You Know?Born in 1593
- Mar 19 Georges de la Tour, French painter of candlelit scenes, born in Vic-sur-Seille, Duchy of Lorraine (d. 1652)
- Mar 25 Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- Apr 3 George Herbert, English metaphysical poet (5 Mystical Songs), born in Montgomery, Wales (d. 1633)
- Apr 4 Edward Nicholas, English statesman (Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II), born in Winterbourne Earls, United Kingdom (d. 1669)
- Apr 13 Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford and Viceroy of Ireland, born in London, England (d. 1641)
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Fun Fact About 1593
Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico
Who Died in 1593
- Feb 6 Emperor Ōgimachi, 106th Emperor of Japan, dies at 75
- Feb 7 Jacques Amyot, French humanist, translator and Abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
- Apr 6 Henry Barrow, English Separatist Puritan, hanged for "devising and circulating seditious books" at about 43 (exact birthdate uncertain, c. 1550)
- Apr 6 John Greenwood, English Separatist Puritan, hanged for "devising and circulating seditious books" at about 37 (d.1556, exact date uncertain)
- May 29 John Penry, Welsh protestant martyr (Marprelate tracts), executed for sedition at about 30
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Elizabeth I
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