1595

Years: 1592 1593 1594 - 1595 - 1596 1597 1598
Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1595 state leaders

Events

January 30 - William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time
June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française . Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.
October 28 - Battle of Guirgevo . Transylvanian forces under Sigismund Bathory, allied to the Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie.
Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.
The Spanish navigator and explorer, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans), the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.

June 9 - Wladislaus IV of Poland.
December - Henry Lawes, English musician.
December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet.
Count Johann von Werth, German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War.
Bohdan Chmielnicki, a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian) Cossack hetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland which began in 1648, and for instigating a massacre of the Jews.
Andrej Cergol , Slovene mathematician.
Jean Desmarets, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
date unknown -Pocahontas