Today in History for Year 1596

Months in Year 1596: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 31st - Catholic League disjoins
Apr 17th - Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais
Apr 24th - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
May 18th - Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
May 26th - England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
Jun 22nd - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet reaches Banten Java
Jun 30th - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
Jul 5th - English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
Jul 17th - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
Aug 3rd - David Fabricius discovers light variation of Mira (1st variable star)
Aug 9th - Henry van Cuyk becomes bishop of Roermond
Sep 5th - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
Sep 7th - Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
Sep 20th - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
Oct 24th - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany
Oct 25th - Spanish fleet sails from Lisbon to Ireland
Oct 31st - English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant"
Nov 29th - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
Dec 22nd - Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 17 of 17

Jan 5th - Henry Lawes, English composer
Jan 13th - Jan J Goyen, Dutch landscape painter
Mar 11th - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
Mar 31st - René Descartes, France, philosopher (he thought, therefore he was)
May 9th - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
Jun 21st - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov
Jun 23rd - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (d. 1641)
Jun 29th - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
Aug 16th - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
Aug 18th - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
Aug 19th - Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, Queen of Bohemia and daughter of James IV and I of England and Scotland (d. 1662)
Aug 26th - Frederik V, king of Bohemia (White Mountain)
Sep 3rd - Nicolo Amati, Italy, violin maker (Stradivari & Guarneri)
Sep 4th - Constantine Huygens, Dutch poet/diplomat (Delightful Folly)
Sep 23rd - Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher
Sep 28th - Vredius, [Olivier de Wree], Flemish historian/poet/mayor
Dec 21st - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

Jan 21st - John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
Feb 17th - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
Mar 23rd - Henry Unton, English diplomat
May 6th - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
May 27th - Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
Jul 29th - Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84
Aug 11th - Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
Sep 9th - Anna Jagiellon, Polish Queen
Sep 13th - Pieter D Keyzer/Keyser, astronomer/navigator (Java)
Sep 15th - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
Oct 3rd - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
Nov 1st - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)
Nov 10th - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
Dec 8th - Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico