May 18: Christopher Marlowe.

July 25: King Henry IV of France.

Year 1593 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1593

January - June

• January - Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.
• February 2 - Battle of Pi?tek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.
• May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• June 22 - Battle of Sisak: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Undated

• The Long War breaks out in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
• Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.
• Henry Constable's Spiritual Sonnetts are written.

Births

• March 13 - Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
• March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
• April - Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (d. 1631)
• April 3 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)
• April 4 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
• April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
• May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
• August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer (d. 1683)
• September 22 - A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (d. 1650)
• November 1 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (d. 1659)

• date unknown
  • Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (d. 1685)
  • Louis Barbier, French bishop (d. 1670)
  • William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's bastard son (d. 1630?)
  • Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (d. 1641)
  • Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1631)
  • Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (d. 1645)
  • Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
  • Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1678)
  • Miko?aj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (d. 1651)
  • Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1657)
  • Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (d. 1658)

See also Category:1593 births.

Deaths

• February 6
  • Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
  • Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
• March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550)
• April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged)
• April 9 - Fredrick Hawrn, English painter
• May 29 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr (b. 1559)
• May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
• June 25 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541)
• July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
• September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (b. 1531)
• date unknown
  • Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536)
  • William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534)
  • Krzysztof Kosi?ski, Polish noble
  • Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518)

See also Category:1593 deaths.

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