History
1594
General
Population: 535 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers sinclude Diego Bernades (religious poems) Robert Greene (posthumous comedy), John Lyly (comedy), Christopher Marlowe (posthumous tragedy),
Thomas Nashe (novel), George Peele (play), Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labours Lost and Romeo and Juliet,
Thomas Hooker (ecclesiastical laws), Piere Mattheiu (French history)
Art includes Caravaggio "The Musical Party", Giovanni da Bologna (Medici statues)
Music includes Jacopo Peri "Dafne" opera - first,
- Science: Giordano Bruno seized by the Vatican for supporting Copernican theory of the Universe
Galileo's Golden Rule
- Deaths: Geographer Gerardus Mercator, Artist Tintoretto (Jacopop Robusti), Composer Orlando di Lasso, Dramatist Thomas Kyd, Artist Jean Cousin,
Composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, English statesman martin Frobisher at recapture of Brest from Spain,
Asia
- General: English traveler Ralph Fitch returns from overland journey to India and Ceylon
- India: English navigator James Lancaster breaks Portuguese trade monopoly
Famine, plague and cannibalism
Europe
- England: London theaters reopen in spring
Death of Martin Frobisher at recapture of Brest from Spanish
- France: Huguenot Henry of Navarre (Henry IV) – having been crowned King of France at Chartres – enters Paris
Edict of St. Germain-en-Laye grants Huguenots freedom of worship
- Portugal: Lisbon port closes to Dutch
Middle East
- Afghanistan: Akbar takes Kandahar
- Ottoman Empire: Turks conquer Raab at Austro-Hungarian border
Elizabeth I sends a Thomas Dallam organ to Sultan of Turkey