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Year 1595 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1595

January - June

January 29 or January 30 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
May 18 - The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595).
May 24 - The Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
June 9 - Battle of Fontaine-Française: Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness.

July - December

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 Wallachia.

August 13 - Battle of Calugareni: The Wallachians, lead by Michael the Brave, accomplish a great victory against the vast army of the Turks, numbering over 150,000 men, lead by Sinan Pasha.

Undated

William Shakespeare writes A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

The Austrians incite a rebellion against the Ottomans in Bulgaria.

Spanish navigator and explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira leads the voyage that discovers (for Europeans) the first known islands of Polynesia, the Marquesas.

Births

January 6 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French grammarian and man of letters (d. 1650)

June 9 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)

June 13 - Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician and scientist (d. 1677)

November 13 - George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1640)

December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (d. 1674)

December 5 - Henry Lawes, English musician (d. 1662)

date unknown

Thomas Carew, English poet (d. 1645)
Miles Corbet, English Puritan politician (d. 1662)
Jean Desmarets, French writer (d. 1676)
Henry Herbert, English official (d. 1673)
Lars Kagg, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1661)
Thomas May, English poet and historian (d. 1650)
Henri II de Montmorency (d. 1632)
Bartholomaeus Nigrinus, Polish Rosicrucian (d. 1646)
Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (d. 1617)
Mikołaj Potocki, Polish politician (d. 1651)
Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish writer (d. 1663)
Cornelius Vermuyden, Dutch engineer (d. 1683)

probable

Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (d. 1624)
Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor (d. 1656)
Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Dutch colonist and merchant (d. 1644)

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Deaths

January 15 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)

January 24 - Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)

February 12 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)

February 21 - Robert Southwell, Jesuit priest and poet (b. 1561)

April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)

May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)

May 26 - Philip Neri, Italian churchman (b. 1515)

August 24 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)

August 26 - Antonio, Prior of Crato, claimant to the throne of Portugal (b. 1531)

October 19 - Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (b. 1537)

November 5 - Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet (b. 1548)

November 12 - John Hawkins, English shipbuilder and trader (b. 1532)

November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (b. 1533)

December 14 - Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)

date unknown

Grzegorz Branicki, Polish nobleman (born1534)
Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople (b. 1530)
Turlough Luineach O'Neill, Irish chief of Tyrone (b. c. 1530)
Robert Sempill, Scottish ballad-writer (b. 1530)

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