1592
Events January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII. Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy Japan invades Korea
Births January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655) March 28 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle Wilhelm Schickard, builder of the "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine Sir John Eliot, English statesman Peter Stuyvesant, last Dutch governor of New Netherlands Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist Nicholas Ferrar Involved in the London Virginia CompanyHong Taiji, later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu
Deaths September 3 - Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker. November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately) Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor. Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer. December - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.
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