1593

Years: 1590 1591 1592 - 1593 - 1594 1595 1596
Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1593 state leaders

Events

May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
July 25 - King Henry IV of France returns to Catholicism, and is recognized as King in most of France.
Outbreak of the Long War in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.

March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
April 3 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (died 1633)
April 4 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (died 1669)
April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (died 1641)
May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (died 1678)
July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died 1653)
August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer (died 1683)
September 22 - A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (died 1650)
Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (died 1685)
Louis Barbier, French bishop (died 1670)
Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (died 1641)
Jean de Brébeuf, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (died 1631)
Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (died 1645)
Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman
Joannes de Laet, Flemish geographer and merchant
Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (died 1678)
Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (died 1631)
Mikolaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (died 1651)
Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (died 1657)
Abel Servien, French diplomat (died 1659)
Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese daimyo (died 1658)
Georges de La Tour, French painter (died 1652)