What Happened In History Year 1596

Historical Events for the Year 1596

• 17th June » The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard or Spitsbergen.
• 20th September » Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
• 8th December » Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City.

Famous Birthdays in 1596

• 13th January » Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
• 31st March » René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1650)
• 23rd June » Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (d. 1641)
• 29th June » Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
• 12th July » Michael I of Russia (d. 1645)
• 16th August » Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)
• 18th August » Jean Bolland, Flemish priest and hagiographer (d. 1665)
• 19th August » Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
• 4th September » Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (d. 1687)
• 3rd December » Nicola Amati, Italian violin maker (d. 1684)
• 21st December » Peter Mogila, Romanian-Ukrainian metropolitan (d. 1646)

Famous Deaths in History for 1596

• 27th January » Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (b. 1540)
• 17th February » Friedrich Sylburg, German scholar (b. 1536)
• 23rd March » Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557)
• 6th May » Giaches de Wert, Flemish-Italian composer (b. 1535)
• 21st June » Jean Liebault, French agronomist and physician (b. 1535)
• 11th August » Hamnet Shakespeare, English son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)
• 9th September » Anna Jagiellon, Polish queen (b. 1523)
• 15th September » Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535)
• 28th September » Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (b. 1540)
• 3rd October » Florent Chrestien, French poet (b. 1541)
• 1st November » Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (b. 1539)

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