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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 - June

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 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 29 - Turtle ships make their first appearance in action at the Battle of Sacheon.

July - December

July 3 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.

July 30 - Alonso de Sotomayor petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.

October 7 - The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.

November 17 - John III is succeeded by his son Sigismund as King of Sweden.

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.

Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy.

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

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)

probable

Étienne Brûlé, French explorer in Canada (d. 1632)

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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 12 - Piotr Sołtanowicz, polish Renaissance poet and politician (b. 1523)

July 26 - Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, French soldier (b. 1524)

August 25 - William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (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 - Francesco Bassano the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1559) � See also .

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