1592 - Definition and Overview

Events

• January 30 - The death of Pope Innocent IX during the previous year had left the Papal throne vacant. Ippolito Aldobrandini is elected Pope Clement VIII.
• Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university
• Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy
• Japan invades Korea

Births

• January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist.
• March 28 - Jan Amos Komensky, Czech teacher.
• August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
• December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
• Wilhelm Schickard, builder of "Calculating Clock", mechanical machine, what was capable of adding and subtracting up to 6 digit numbers.
• Sir John Eliot, English statesman.
• Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the British Empire.
• Jacques Callot, French baroque graphics artist.
• Nicholas Ferrar Involved in the London Virginia Company
• Hong Taiji, later Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu.

Deaths

• September 3 - Robert Greene, English playwright, poet, pamphleteer, and prose writer
• September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French Renaissance thinker.
• November 27 - John III Vasa of Sweden
• Gunilla Bielke, second wife of John III Vasa. (approximately)
• Bartolomeo Ammanati, Florentine architect and sculptor.
• Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer.
• December - Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, great grandson of Pope Paul III and nephew of Philip II of Spain.