History
1592
General
Population: 533 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Robert Greene (pamphlet), THeaterical manager Philip Henslowe (Diary), Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy (play),
John Lyly Midas (play), Thomas Nashe (satire), Shakespeare mentioned as actor for first time - writes Richard III and Comedy of Errors,
Thomas Sanches (marriage treatise),
Art includes Tontoretto "The Last Supper"
Music includes Monteverdi's third book of madrigals, Lodovico Zacconi "Prattica musica"
- Religion: Cardinal Ippolito Alsobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII
- Science: Galileo writes about the problems of raising weights
- Deaths: Jewish mystic Isaak Luria, Sweden's John III, Dramatist Robert Greene, Essayist Michel de Montaigne, Navigator Thomas Cavendish
Africa
- General: British participation in transatlantic slavery begins
- Mombasa: Portuguese settle at Mombasa
Americas
- Canada: Juan de Fuca discovers British Columbia
- North America: Measles outbreak in North America
Asia
- General: Korea and Japan begin fighting – Japan invades Korea but is defeated by Chinese
Sir James Lancaster sails around Malay Peninsula
- India: Akbar the Mogul Emperor takes Sind - End of Mughol rise
- Japan: Hideyoshi of Japan fails in invasion of Korea as country refuses passage of his troops to invade China
Europe
- General: Emperor Rudolf II makes peace with Poland
- England: Plague kills 15,000 in London
British participation in transatlantic slavery begins
- Holland: Windmills used in Holland to drive mechanical saws
- Italian States: Ruined Roman city of Pompeii discovered
- Sweden: End of reign of Swedish John III – succeeded by Sigismund III of Poland