1596

Template:C16YearInTopicX Year 1596 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1596

January - June

• February 14 - Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.
• April 9 - Spanish troops capture Calais
• May 18 - Willem Barents leaves Vlie on his third and final Arctic voyage.
• June - Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught to parley with the local Irish lords.

July - December

• July 5 - An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.
• July 14 - King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) was beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo Ceylon
• September 17 - The Spanish capture Amiens
• September 20 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
• October 24/26 - Battle of Keresztes

Undated

• The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the Authority of the Pope.
• The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.
• King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.
• Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is founded.
• The Black Death hits parts of Europe.

Births

1596 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1596 MDXCVI
Ab urbe condita	2349
Armenian calendar	1045 ԹՎ ՌԽԵ
Assyrian calendar	6346
Balinese saka calendar	1517–1518
Bengali calendar	1002–1003
Berber calendar	2546
English Regnal year	38 Eliz. 1 – 39 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2140
Burmese calendar	958
Byzantine calendar	7104–7105
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 4293 or 4086     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 4294 or 4087
Coptic calendar	1312–1313
Discordian calendar	2762
Ethiopian calendar	1588–1589
Hebrew calendar	5356–5357
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1652–1653
- Shaka Samvat	1517–1518
- Kali Yuga	4696–4697
Holocene calendar	11596
Igbo calendar	596–597
Iranian calendar	974–975
Islamic calendar	1004–1005
Japanese calendar	Bunroku 5 / Keichō 1 (慶長元年)
Javanese calendar	1516–1517
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3929
Minguo calendar	316 before ROC 民前316年
Nanakshahi calendar	128
Thai solar calendar	2138–2139
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1722 or 1341 or 569     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1723 or 1342 or 570

• January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (died 1656)
• February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect (died 1657)
• March 31 - René Descartes, French philosopher and Mathematician (died 1650)
• May 9 - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
• June 23 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (died 1641)
• June 29 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)
• July 12 - Michael I of Russia (died 1645)
• August 16 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (died 1632)
• August 18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
• August 19 - Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia (died 1662)
• September
  • James Shirley, English dramatist (died 1666)
  • Moses Amyraut, French Protestant theologian (died 1664)
• September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (died 1687)
• November 1 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)
• December 21
  • Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
  • Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (died 1656)
• date unknown
  • Nicolò Amati, Italian violin maker (died 1684)
  • Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (died 1643)
  • Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (died 1661)
  • Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (died 1639)
  • Richard Mather, American clergyman (died 1669)
  • Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (died 1633)
  • Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)

See also Category:1596 births.

Deaths

• January 28 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (born 1540)
• February 17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (born 1536)
• March 23 - Henry Unton, English diplomat (born 1557)
• May 6 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535)
• July 23 - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
• September 15 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born 1535)
• October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
• November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (born 1539)
• November 10 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
• November 29
  • William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr
  • Hattori Hanzo, Ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (born 1541)
  • Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (born 1572)
• date unknown
  • Blanche Parry, Personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1508)
  • Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)
  • Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (born 1523)
• probable
  • Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)

See also Category:1596 deaths.