1593 - Definition and Overview

Events

• May 18 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 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.

Births

• April 3 - George Herbert, English poet and orator († 1633)
• April 13 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman.
• July 8 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter.
• August 9 - Izaak Walton, English writer.
• Matthaus Meriah, German illustrator.
• Paolo Agostino, Italian musician.
• Louis Barbier, French bishop.
• Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter.
• Andrej Kobav, Slovene mathematician.
• A. Matthäus Merian, Swiss cartographer.
• Georges de La Tour, painter.
• Mumtaz Mahal

Deaths

• March 23 - Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist.
• April 6 - John Greenwood, English Puritan and Separatist.
• May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright
• Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
• William Harrison, English clergyman.
• Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby.
• Giussepe Arcimboldo, Italian painter.