January–March •
January 25 – Siamese King
Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, kills Burmese Crown Prince
Mingyi Swa on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon,
Chulasakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to
January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day. •
January 27 – The
Roman Inquisition opens the seven-year trial of scholar
Giordano Bruno. •
February 2 –
Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by
Janusz Ostrogski are victorious. •
February 8 –
Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops. •
February 12 –
Battle of Haengju:
Korea defeats
Japan. •
March 7 (February 25
Old Style) – The
Uppsala Synod discontinues; the
Liturgical Struggle between the
Swedish Reformation and Counter-Reformation ends in Sweden. •
March 14 – The
Pi Day, giving the most digits of
pi when written in
mm/dd/yyyy format, (i.e. 3.141593, 3/14/1593) occurs, as realized later. During 1593 Flemish mathematician
Adriaan van Roomen is working on the most accurate calculation of pi up to that time and arrives at 16 decimal places of pi using the
polygon approximation method), and publishes it in his treatise
Ideae mathematicae pars prima (Antverpiae, 1593).
April–June •
April 10 – The English Parliament enacts a law for the first military disability pension in British history, titled "An Acte for relief of Soudiours". The Act states that "forasmuch as it is agreeable with Christian Charity Policy and the Honour of our Nation, that such as have since the 25th day of March 1588, adventured their lives and lost their limbs or disabled their bodies, or shall hereafter adventure the lives, lose their limbs or disable their bodies, in defence and service of Her Majesty and the State, should at their return be relieved and rewarded to the end that they may reap the fruit of their good deservings, and others may be encouraged to perform like endeavors..." •
April 18 –
Anglo-Spanish War: Naval
Battle of Blaye in the
Gironde estuary sees a Spanish victory over the blockading English fleet, allowing the Spanish to relieve the French Catholic garrison of
Blaye. • After April –
William Shakespeare's poem
Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed in London from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times. •
May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in
London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to
Christopher Marlowe's plays. •
May 12 – English dramatist
Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "
Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's. •
May 18 – A warrant for the arrest of
Christopher Marlowe is issued. On
May 20 he presents himself to the
Privy Council. •
May 30 –
Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in
Deptford. •
June 7 – Battle of
Salbertrand in Piedmont: Victory of
François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, over the Spanish of Rodrigue Alvarez of Toledo, allies of
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. •
June 22 –
Battle of Sisak in
Croatia: The
Habsburgs defeat the
Ottoman Empire.
July–September •
July 25 – As he promised in January,
Henry IV of France abjures
Protestantism at the
Basilica of Saint-Denis. Legend attributes to him the saying
Paris vaut bien une messe ("
Paris is well worth a mass"). •
July 29 – The
Long Turkish War breaks out in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. •
August 3 – Poland's council of nobles, the Sejm, grants permission to King
Sigismund III Vasa and his wife,
Queen consort Anne, to travel to Sweden to claim the Swedish crown. •
August 24 – After losing the
Battle of Sisak two months earlier, the Ottoman Empire attacks the Austrian fortress guarding the city and breaks through its walls with cannon fire, forcing its surrender on August 30. •
September 10 – With no fortress or troops to defend Croatia, Ottoman General Mehmed Pasha captures the city of
Sisak. Selânikî Mustafa Efendi,
Tarih-i Selânikî (Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999)
October–December •
October 11 – The
Battle of Belleek takes place at
County Fermanagh in
Ireland as an English expeditionary force led by
Henry Bagenal defeats Irish troops commanded by the
Lord of Fermanagh. •
October 24 – Supposed date of the event described in the
1593 transported soldier legend. •
October 28 – The
Siege of Coevorden begins as the Spanish Army attempts to retake a fortress captured a year earlier by the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of England. •
November 27 –
Antonio Grimaldi Cebà begins a two-year term as the new
Doge of the
Republic of Genoa, succeeding
Giovanni Giustiniani Campi. •
December 6 – The
Battle of Dryfe Sands takes place in
Scotland at
Annandale, between rival
clans as
John Maxwell leads
Clan Maxwell, aided by
Clan Grierson and
Clan Pollock, in an invasion of the lands of
Clan Johnstone, led by Sir James Johnstone. With their defense aided by
Clan Scott and
Clan Graham, the Johnstone clan wins the battle, but only 160 of the 600 defenders survive the fight. •
December 27 – Spanish Jesuit priest
Gregorio Céspedes becomes the first Christian missionary to Korea, arriving at
Busan to begin his ministry in the Buddhist kingdom of
Joseon. Céspedes is able to enter Korea by coming with the
Japanese invasion force of General
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Date unknown •
Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of
Walachia. •
Robert Bellarmine's
Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos concludes publication in
Ingolstadt. •
Henry Constable's
Spirituall Sonnettes are written. • The parish of
Laukaa was founded. • Khwaja Usman takes shelter in
Goyghor Mosque after the Afghan rebellion against the
Subahdar of
Mughal Bengal,
Man Singh I. • Irish pirate queen
Grace O'Malley meets with Queen
Elizabeth I of England at
Greenwich. • c. 1593–
1604 – According to
John Warwick Montgomery, the Rosicrucian manifestos are initially composed by
Tobias Hess, in anticipation of the opening of the vault in
1604, according to
Simon Studion's apocalyptic timetable. == Births ==