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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years: 1588 1589 1590 1591 1592 - 1593 - 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598
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.
Births
- April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman.
- July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter.
- August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer.
- Matthaus Meriah, German illustrator.
- Paolo Agostino, Italian musician.
- Louis Barbier, French bishop.
- Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter.
- Andrej Kobav, Slovene mathematician.
- A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer.
- Georges de La Tour, painter.
- Mumtaz Mahal
Deaths
- March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist.
- April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and Separatist.
- May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright
- Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
- William Harrison, English clergyman.
- Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby.
- Giussepe Arcimboldo, Italian painter.\n
