1593

Years: 1590 1591 1592 - 1593 - 1594 1595 1596
Decades: 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

1593 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

**1593 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1593 MDXCIII
Ab urbe condita	2346
Armenian calendar	1042 ԹՎ ՌԽԲ
Chinese calendar	4229/4289-11-29 (壬辰年十一月廿九日) — to — 4230/4290-intercalary 11-9 (癸巳年閏十一月初九日)
Ethiopian calendar	1585 – 1586
Hebrew calendar	5353 – 5354
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1648 – 1649
- Shaka Samvat	1515 – 1516
- Kali Yuga	4694 – 4695
Iranian calendar	971 – 972
Islamic calendar	1001 – 1002
Thai solar calendar	2136

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

Events

May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
June 22 - Ottoman Empire defeated in Battle of Sisak, their first defeat in Europe.
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.

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