1593

Year 1593 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1593

January - June

* January - Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.
* January 18 - Siamese King Naresuan in combat on elephant back killed Burmese Crown Prince Minchit Sra on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon, Chulasakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.
* February 2 - Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.
* May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
* June 22 - Battle of Sisak: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.

Undated

* The Long War breaks out in Hungary, between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
* Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia.
* Henry Constable's "Spiritual Sonnetts" are written.

Births

* March 13 - Georges de La Tour, French painter (d. 1652)
* March 25 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
* April - Mumtaz Mahal, Persian wife of Shah Jahan I (d. 1631)
* April 3 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (d. 1633)
* April 4 - Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
* April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
* May 19 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
* July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
* August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer (d. 1683)
* September 22 - A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer (d. 1650)
* November 1 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (d. 1659)
*"date unknown"
**Leonardo Agostini, Italian antiquary (d. 1685)
**Louis Barbier, French bishop (d. 1670)
** William Fitz-Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's son (d. 1630?)
**Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (d. 1641)
**Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (d. 1631)
**Anthony van Diemen, Dutch merchant (d. 1645)
**Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615)
**Jerónimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (d. 1678)
**Mikołaj Ostroróg, Polish nobleman (d. 1651)
**Sir George Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1657)
**Maeda Toshitsune, Japanese warlord (d. 1658)

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Deaths

* January 18 - presumed to correspond to Monday, the 2^nd waning day of the 2^nd month of the Chinese calendar Year of the Dragon, Buddhist calendar Chulasakarat Era year 954, when Burmese Crown Prince Minchit Sra was killed in personal combat on the backs of war elephants by Siamese King Naresuan.
* February 6
**Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
**Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
* March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and separatist (b. 1550)
* April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and separatist (hanged)
* April 9 - Fredrick Hawrn, English painter
* May 29 - John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr (b. 1559)
* May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1564)
* June 25 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1541)
* July 11 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (b. 1527)
* September 25 - Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (b. 1531)
*"date unknown"
**Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet (b. 1536)
**William Harrison, English clergyman (b. 1534)
**Krzysztof Kosiński, Polish noble
**Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (b. 1518): "See also ."