1596

Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s
Years:	1593 1594 1595 - 1596 - 1597 1598 1599

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Year 1596 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1596

February 14 - Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.
April 9 - Spanish troops capture Calais
May 18 - Willem Barents leaves Vlie on his third and final Arctic voyage.
June - Sir John Norreys and Sir Geoffrey Fenton travel to Connaught to parley with the local Irish lords.

July 5 - An English fleet, commanded by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lord Howard of Effingham, sacks Cádiz.
July 14 - King Dominicus Corea (Edirille Bandara) was beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo Ceylon
September 17 - The Spanish capture Amiens
September 20 - Diego de Montemayor founded the city of Monterrey, Mexico.
October 8/October 10 - The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the Authority of the Pope.
October 24/26 - Battle of Keresztes

The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.
King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge is founded.
The Black Death hits parts of Europe.

January 13 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (died 1656)
February 2 - Jacob van Campen, Dutch artist and architect (died 1657)
March 31 - René Descartes, French philosopher and Mathematician (died 1650)
May 9 - Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
June 23 - Johan Banér, Swedish soldier (died 1641)
June 29 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (died 1680)
July 12 - Michael I of Russia (died 1645)
August 16 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (died 1632)
August 18 - Jean Bolland, Flemish Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
August 19 - Elizabeth Stuart, later Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia (died 1662)
September
- James Shirley, English dramatist (died 1666)
- Moses Amyraut, French Protestant theologian (died 1664)
September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (died 1687)
November 1 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter (died 1669)
December 21
- Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
- Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (died 1656)
date unknown
- Nicolò Amati, Italian violin maker (died 1684)
- Bevil Grenville, English royalist soldier (died 1643)
- Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (died 1661)
- Georg Jenatsch, Swiss political leader (died 1639)
- Richard Mather, American clergyman (died 1669)
- Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (died 1633)
- Edward Winslow, American Pilgrim leader (died 1655)

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January 28 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier (born 1540)
February 17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (born 1536)
March 23 - Henry Unton, English diplomat (born 1557)
May 6 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (born 1535)
July 23 - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (born 1526)
September 15 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (born 1535)
October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
November 1 - Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (born 1539)
November 10 - Peter Wentworth, English Puritan politician (b. 1530)
November 29
- William Gibson (martyr), English Catholic martyr
- Hattori Hanzo, Ninja under Tokugawa Ieyasu (born 1541)
- Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr (born 1572)
date unknown
- Blanche Parry, Personal attendant to Elizabeth I of England (born c. 1508)
- Jean Bodin, French jurist (born 1530)
- Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer, diplomat, scientist, and author (born 1523)
probable
- Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)

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