1592

Year 1592 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1592

• January 30 - Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.
• February 8 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
• March 14 - Pi day to the sixth digit!
• April 4 - The future Henry IV of France, King designate of Henry III of France, announces in a declaration, so-called "Expedient," his intention to follow instructions in and convert to the Catholic religion. (Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)
• April 13 - The Siege of Busan(Part Of the first Japanese invasions of Korea) begins.
• April 24 - Battle of Sangju: The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans
• April 28 - Battle of Ch'ungju: Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
• May 7 - The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.
• May 29 - Turtle ships make their first appearance in action at the Battle of Sacheon.

July - December

• July 30 - Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
• August 14 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.
• November 17 - John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.
• October 5 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Siege of Jinju (1592).

Undated

• The Collegium Melitense (now known as the University of Malta) is founded by Bishop Garagallo.
• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded.
• The Seven-Year War between Korea and Japan starts.
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
• Negotiations begin for the dissolution of the childless marriage of Henry IV of France and Marguerite de Valois.
• The Confucian shrine of Munmyo is destroyed by fire.

Births

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• January 5 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
• January 22 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher and scientist (d. 1655)
• February 20 - Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (d. 1637)
• March 28 - Comenius, Czech teacher and writer (d. 1670)
• April 11 - Sir John Eliot, English statesman (d. 1632)
• April 22 - Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor (d. 1635)
• May - Francis Quarles, English poet (d. 1644)
• May 15 - Sir Ruselincia Anderson
• June 22 - Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic Archbishop
• July 10 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)
• August 1 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (d. 1662)
• August 28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
• October 22 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
• November 5 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (d. 1672)
• December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676)
• date unknown
  • Richard Bellingham, colonial magistrate (d. 1672)
  • Abraham Elzevir, Dutch printer (d. 1652)
  • John Hacket, English churchman (d. 1670)
  • Ingen, Chinese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (d. 1673)
  • John Jenkins, English composer (d. 1678)
  • Henry King, poet (d. 1669)
  • Mustafa I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1639)
  • John Oldham, early Puritan settler in Massachusetts (d. 1636)
  • Hung Taiji, Emperor of China (d. 1643)
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  • Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

Deaths

• February - Thomas Cavendish, English sailor and explorer (b. 1555)
• February 13 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter (b. c. 1515)
• February 29 - Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (b. 1540)
• March 5 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
• April 13 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
• April 27 - Girolamo Muziano, Italian painter (b. 1528)
• May 17 - Paschal Baylon, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1540)
• July 1 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
• July 4 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559)
• July 26 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)
• August 25 - William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1532)
• September 3 - Robert Greene, English writer (b. 1558)
• September 13 - Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (b. 1533)
• October 28 - Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat
• November 17 - King John III of Sweden (b. 1537)
• November 27 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1568)
• December 3 - Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1545)
• date unknown - Nicholas White, Irish lawyer and government official (b. 1532) (in prison)