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[[File:Battle of Mezőkeresztes 1596.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[October 24]]–[[October 26|26]]: [[Battle of Keresztes]]]]
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== Events ==
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=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – [[Drake's Assault on Panama]]: Sir [[Francis Drake]], General [[Thomas Baskerville (general)|Thomas Baskerville]] and an English force of 15 ships land at the Atlantic Ocean port of [[Nombre de Dios, Colón|Nombre de Dios]] in an attempt to capture the [[Isthmus of Panama]].<ref>David Marley, ''Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere'' (ABC-CLIO, 2008) pp. 136-137</ref>
* [[January 20]] – Francis Drake, unable to receive a ransom for the town of Nombre de Dios, orders the town and all Spanish ships in harbor to be burned. At the same time, General Baskerville leads 750 men on a mission to clear the Isthmus of Spanish parties.<ref>Kenneth R. Andrews, ''The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins'' (Routledge, 2017) pp. 204-05</ref>
* [[January 27]] – With an epidemic of [[dysentery]] spreading through the English forces of Drake and Baskerville, Drake orders survivors to retreat to the English ships, anchored off of the island of [[Isla Escudo de Veraguas|Escudo de Veraguas]].  Drake dies of dystentery two days later on his flagship, ''Defiance''.<ref>John Sugden, ''Sir Francis Drake'' (Penguin Books, 2004) pp. 313</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Albert VII, Archduke of Austria|Albert of Austria]] arrives in [[Brussels]] to begin his administration as [[List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands|Governor General]] of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]].
* [[February 14]] – Archbishop [[John Whitgift]] begins building his [[Whitgift Foundation|hospital]] at [[Croydon]].
* [[March 11]] – The [[Battle of Pinos]] is fought between the English Navy (with 14 warships) and the Spanish Navy (with 13 galleons) off of the coast [[Cuba]]'s [[Isla de la Juventud|Isla de Pinos]], with 325 English Navy men killed or captured, while Spain drives Baskerville's ships to retreat and sustains 80 dead or wounded.<ref>Cesáreo Fernández Duro, ''Armada Española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y Aragón'' (Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1898) p. 115</ref>
* [[March 15]] – During Spain's [[Brittany Campaign]] during the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]], a Spanish ship carrying 25 soldiers invades England after arriving at [[Cawsand Bay]] in [[Cornwall]]. After starting a fire, the Spanish retreat.<ref>John Daniell, ''A Compendium of the History of Cornwall'' (Netherton & Worth, 1880) p. 156</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 9]] – [[Siege of Calais (1596)|Siege of Calais]]: Spanish troops capture [[Calais]].
* [[May 18]] – [[Willem Barents]] leaves [[Vlie]], on his third and final Arctic voyage.
* [[June 5]] – Pope [[Clement VIII]] appoints 16 new Cardinals.
* [[June 10]] – Willem Barents and [[Jacob van Heemskerk]] discover [[Bear Island (Norway)|Bear Island]].
* [[June 17]] – Willem Barents discovers [[Spitsbergen]].
* [[June 24]] – [[Cornelis de Houtman]] arrives in [[Banten]], the first Dutch sailor to reach Indonesia.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 5]] – [[Capture of Cádiz]]: An English fleet, commanded by [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], and [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham|Lord Howard of Effingham]], sacks [[Cádiz]].
* [[July 14]] – King [[Dominicus Corea]] (Edirille Bandara) is beheaded by the Portuguese in [[Colombo]], [[Ceylon]].
* [[July 18]] –  Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] issues "an open warrant to the [[Lord Mayor of London]] and the aldermen and his brethren, and to all other vice-admirals, mayors, and other public officers whatsoever to whom it may appertain" directing that [[African people|Africans]] in the realm will be deported. Citing a request from Casper van Senden "to have licence to take up so many [[Moors|blackamoor]]s  here in this realm  and to transport them into Spain and Portugal," the Queen notes that "Her majesty... considering the reasonableness of his request to transport so many blackamoors from hence, doth think it a very good exchange and that those kind of people may be well spared in this realm being so populous and numbers of able persons the subjects of the land and Christian people that perish for want of service, whereby through their labor they might be maintained."<ref>"Elizabeth I, Letters Permitting Deportation of Blackamoors from England, ''Acts of the Privy Council'', Vol. 26 (1596-97), ed. John Roche Dasent (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902)", in ''"Othello" A Broadview Internet Shakespeare Edition'' (Broadview Press, 2017) pp.299-300</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title = Too Many Blackamoors: Deportation, Discrimination, and Elizabeth I | author = Emily C. Bartels | journal = SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 | volume = 46 | issue = 2 | date = April 2006 | pages = 305–322 | publisher = Rice University | doi = 10.1353/sel.2006.0012 | jstor = 3844644 | s2cid = 154728438 | quote = In 1596, Queen Elizabeth issued an 'open letter' to the Lord Mayor of London, announcing that 'there are of late divers black-moores brought into this realme, of which kinde of people there aire {{Not a typo|all|ready}} here to manie,' and ordering that they be deported from the country. }}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – The [[Siege of Hulst (1596)|siege of the Dutch city of]] [[Hulst]] is completed after a month as Spanish forces under the command of [[Albert VII, Archduke of Austria|Albert]], son of the late Holy Roman Emperor Maxmimilan II, force the surrender of the city. 
* [[August 29]] – The coronation of Christian IV as King of Denmark and King of Norway takes place at the ''[[Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen|Vor Frue Kirke]]'' cathedral in [[Copenhagen]]. The Bishop of Zealand, Peder Virstrup, places the crown upon the head of King Christian IV, who had become the monarch in 1588 at the age of 11.
* [[August]] – [[David Fabricius]] discovers the variable nature of the star [[Mira]].
* [[September 20]] – [[Diego de Montemayor]] founds the city of [[Monterrey]], [[Mexico]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 10]] – The [[Union of Brest]]: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnieper becomes known as the Ukrainian Rite of [[Catholicism]], whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the [[Pope]].<ref>{{cite book|author=George Nedungatt|title=The Synod of Diamper Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hgguAAAAYAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Pontificio Istituto Orientale|isbn=978-88-7210-331-9|page=137|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 18]] – The [[2nd Spanish Armada|''Second Armada'']], a Spanish fleet sent to attack England in revenge for the raid on Cadiz, is wrecked in storms off [[Cape Finisterre]]; nearly 5,000 men and 44 ships are lost including five galleons
* [[October 19]] – The Spanish galleon ''[[San Felipe incident (1596)|San Felipe]]'' founders in Japan, leading to [[26 Martyrs of Japan|26 Christians being martyred]] the next year.
* [[October 26]] – [[Battle of Keresztes]]: The [[Ottoman Empire]] Turks defeat a combined [[Habsburg]]–[[Transylvania]]n army, after two days of fighting: .<ref>{{cite book|author=William J. Griswold|title=The Great Anatolian Rebellion, 1000-1020/1591-1611|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qURtAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=K. Schwarz|isbn=978-3-922968-34-4|page=17|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] – The [[Cudgel War]] begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when poor [[peasant]]s rise up against the troops, nobles and cavalry who have taxed them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jaakkoilkka.fi/Jaakko%20Ilkka%20-%20Rebellion%20.htm|title=Jaakko Ilkka's biography|access-date=13 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605075454/http://www.jaakkoilkka.fi/Jaakko%20Ilkka%20-%20Rebellion%20.htm|archive-date=5 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[December 5]] – [[Damat Ibrahim Pasha]] is appointed the [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] by Sultan [[Mehmed III]] for the second time in less than a year, replacing [[Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha]], who succeeded him on October 27.
* [[December 8]] – In Japan, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], Chancellor of the Realm, orders the arrest of the [[San Felipe incident of 1596|26 Roman Catholic Christians who had the misfortune of being shipwrecked]] in [[Kyoto]] on October 19; each of the ones arrested has a part of the left ear cut off, then sent on a forced march to [[Nagasaki]] on January 4, then has them killed on February 5. 
* [[December 31]] – [[Henry IV of France|King Henry IV]] of France (who was originally King Henry III of the Spanish [[Kingdom of Navarre|Navarre]]) declares Navarre to be permanently separate of France.

=== Date unknown ===
* The first [[water closet]], by Sir [[John Harington (writer)|John Harington]], is installed in a manor near [[Kelston]] in [[England]].
* King [[Sigismund III Vasa]] moves the capital of [[Poland]] from [[Kraków]] to [[Warsaw]].
* [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]], is founded.
* The [[Black Death]] hits parts of [[Europe]].
* The fourth of a five year run of poor harvests, largely caused by the weather, a pattern typical of the last third of the century. This causes famine throughout Europe, which leads to food riots in Britain.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J.M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=0-212-97022-4}}</ref>
* The [[Serb Uprising of 1596–97]] begins.
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== Births ==
[[File:Terborch Goyenuv portret.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Jan van Goyen]]]]
[[File:Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[René Descartes]]]]
[[File:Emperor Go-Mizunoo3.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]]]]

===January–June===
* [[January 1]] – [[Elizabeth Ribbing]], Swedish noble (d. [[1662]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Jan van Goyen]], Dutch painter (d. [[1656]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Jacob van Campen]], Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. [[1657]])
** [[Carew Mildmay]], Member of the Parliament of England (d. [[1676]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]], soldier, poet and writer (d. [[1656]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Louis Giry]], French lawyer, classical scholar (d. [[1665]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Johan Stiernhöök]], Swedish lawyer (d. [[1675]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar]], German prince and colonel (d. [[1622]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden]] (d. [[1618]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Isaac Elzevir]], Dutch printer and publisher (d. [[1651]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Ebba Brahe]], Swedish countess (d. [[1674]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg]]-Gütsrow (d. [[1625]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Catherine Henriette de Bourbon]], French noble (d. [[1663]])
* [[March 31]] – [[René Descartes]], French philosopher and mathematician (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Cottingham|title=The Cambridge Companion to Descartes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Prhr9FBdQ_MC&pg=PA22|date=25 September 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-36696-0|pages=22|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Juan van der Hamen]], Spanish artist (d. [[1631]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Moritz Gudenus]], German Catholic preacher (d. [[1680]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Abraham van Diepenbeeck]], Dutch painter (d. [[1675]])
* [[May 21]] – [[John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein]] (d. [[1605]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Peter Wtewael]], Dutch painter (d. [[1660]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Michel Particelli d'Emery]], French politician (d. [[1650]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Johan Banér]], Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War (d. [[1641]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein]], German prince (d. [[1655]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]] of Japan (d. [[1680]])

===July–December===
* [[July 1]] – [[Bertuccio Valiero]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1658]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Michael I of Russia]], Russian Tsar (d. [[1645]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ukrainian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jnoAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, Limited|page=28|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – [[Lorentz Eichstadt]], German mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1660]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]] (d. [[1632]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Jean Bolland]], Belgian Jesuit, Founder of the ''Bollandist'' (d. [[1665]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Elizabeth of Bohemia|Elizabeth Stuart]], later Queen of Bohemia (d. [[1662]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ronald H. Fritze|author2=William B. Robison|title=Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8goko0Lpr5sC&pg=PA177|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28391-8|pages=177|language=en}}</ref>
* September
** [[James Shirley]], English dramatist (d. [[1666]])
** [[Moses Amyraut]], French Protestant theologian (d. [[1664]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Nicola Amati]], Italian luthier from Cremona (d. [[1684]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Constantijn Huygens]], Dutch Golden Age poet and composer (d. [[1687]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jolande van der Klis|title=The Essential Guide to Dutch Music: 100 Composers and Their Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCUKAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-5356-460-8|page=179|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] – [[John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (d. [[1660]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)|Francis Eaton]], Mayflower passenger and New World colonist (d. [[1633]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Joan Blaeu]], Dutch cartographer (d. [[1673]])
* [[October 1]] – [[Cesare Dandini]], Italian painter (d. [[1657]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Pieter van Mierevelt]], Dutch painter (d. [[1623]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Edward Winslow]], American Pilgrim leader (d. [[1655]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon]], French mathematician (d. [[1671]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Robert Coe (colonist)|Robert Coe]], American colonial (d. [[1689]])
* [[November 1]]
** [[Albert, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], joint ruler of Nassau-Dillenburg 1623–1626 (d. [[1626]])
** [[Pietro da Cortona]], Italian painter (d. [[1669]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf]], French noble (d. [[1657]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Jeanne Chezard de Matel]], French mystic (d. [[1670]])
* [[November 21]] – [[René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson]], French politician (d. [[1651]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1647]])
* [[December 13]] – [[António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva]], Portuguese general and noble (d. [[1675]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano]] (d. [[1656]])
** [[Peter Mohyla]], Moldavian Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. [[1646]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Leonaert Bramer]], Dutch painter (d. [[1674]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Francesco Buonamici (architect)|Francesco Buonamici]], Italian architect, painter and engraver (d. [[1677]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Oechslin |first=Werner |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |title=BUONAMICI, Francesco |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-buonamici_res-20b6e98a-87e9-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=it |date=1972 |volume=15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123183429/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-buonamici_res-20b6e98a-87e9-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |archive-date=23 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[John Dury]], Scottish-born Calvinist minister (d. [[1680]])
* [[Franz von Hatzfeld]], [[Prince-Bishop of Würzburg]] (d. [[1642]])
* [[Lucas Holstenius]], German humanist (d. [[1661]])
* [[Georg Jenatsch]], Swiss political leader (d. [[1639]])
* [[Richard Mather]], American clergyman (d. [[1669]])
* [[Horio Tadaharu]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1633]])
* [[Pocahontas]], Algonquian (Native American) princess (d. [[1617]])

== Deaths ==
[[File:Gheeraerts Francis Drake 1591.jpg|thumb|110px|Sir [[Francis Drake]]]]
[[File:Hattori Hanzo.jpg|thumb|110px|Hattori Hanzō]]
* [[January 28]] – Sir [[Francis Drake]], English explorer, sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, pirate and politician (b. {{circa}} [[1540]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Neville Williams|title=Francis Drake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7GRnAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|isbn=978-0-297-76685-8|page=220|language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] – [[George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt]] (b. [[1547]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Friedrich Sylburg]], German classical scholar (b. [[1536]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Blaise de Vigenère]], French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (b. [[1523]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Henry Unton]], English diplomat (b. [[1557]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Frederick IV of Liegnitz]], German noble (b. [[1552]])
* [[April 4]] – [[Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen]] (b. [[1533]])
* [[May]] – [[Janet Fockart]], Scottish merchant and moneylender
* [[May 5]] – [[Catherine de Lorraine (1552–1596)|Catherine de Montpensier]], politically active French duchess (b. [[1552]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Giaches de Wert]], Flemish composer (b. [[1535]])
* [[May 31]] – [[John Lesley]], Scottish bishop (b. [[1527]])
* [[June 10]] – [[John Louis I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein]], Germany noble (b. [[1567]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Alessandro Alberti]], Italian painter (b. [[1551]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon]] (b. [[1526]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Hamnet Shakespeare]], son of [[William Shakespeare]] (b. [[1585]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Anna Jagiellon]], queen of Poland (b. [[1523]])
* [[September 14]] – [[Francisco de Toledo (Jesuit)|Francisco de Toledo]], Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. [[1532]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Leonhard Rauwolf]], German physician and botanist (b. [[1535]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Florent Chrestien]], French writer (b. [[1541]])
* [[October 26]] – [[István Esterházy (1572–1596)|István Esterházy]], Hungarian noble (b. [[1572]])
* [[November 1]] – [[Pierre Pithou]], French lawyer and scholar (b. [[1539]])<ref>{{cite book|author=R. W. Lamb|title=Annales Phaedriani, 1596-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-BIjAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=R.W. Lamb|isbn=978-0-9533361-0-4|page=2|language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[Peter Wentworth]], English Puritan politician (b. [[1530]])
* [[November 29]]
** [[William Gibson (martyr)]], English Catholic martyr
** [[William Knight (martyr)|Venerable William Knight]], English Catholic martyr (b. [[1572]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Francisca Nuñez de Carabajal]], Portuguese-born [[marrano]], burned at the stake 
* [[December 27]] – [[Pietro Pontio]], Italian music theorist and composer (b. [[1532]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jean Bodin]], French jurist (born [[1530]])
** [[Anna Wecker]], German writer
** [[Hattori Hanzō]], Japanese [[ninja]] under [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] (b. [[1541]])
* ''probable'' – [[Henry Willobie]], English poet (b. [[1575]])

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