History
1595
General
Population: 537 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include George Peele The Old Wives Tale (comedy), Shakespeare Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Sir Philip Sidney (work published posthumously), Andrew Maunsell (catalog of English books)
Art includes Annibale Carracci "Venus and Adonis"
- Fashion: First appearance of heels on shoes
- Science: Andreas Libavius writes "Opera onmia medico-chymica"
- Deaths: Counter-reformationist Filippo Neri, Poet Torquato Tasso, Poet Robert Southwell (hanged at Tyburn), Explorer Sir John Hawkins
Africa
- West Africa: First Dutch settlements on Guinea Coast
Americas
- South America: Sir Walter Raleigh leaves for South America, explores 300 miles of Orinoco River
Eruption and mudflow at Nevado del Ruiz
Mendana visits Marquesas and Nderic (Santa Cruz)
Asia
- General: Dutch begin to colonize E Indies
Europe
- General: Treaty of Teusina between Sweden and Russia – Sweden gains Estonia
Famine in Italy and Germany
- England: Spanish land in Cornwall – burn Penzance and Mousehole
English army abandons bow as weapon of war
- France: Henry IV declares war on Spain
Pope Clement VIII absolves Henry IV and recognizes him as King of France
- Holy Roman Empire: Peasant revolt in Upper Austria
- Hungary: Sigmund Bathory defeats Turks at Giurgevo
- Poland: Warsaw made capital of Poland
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Sultan Murad III of Turkey dies and is succeeded by Mohammed III
Byzantines ask Pope Urban II for help against the Turks
Mehmet III the Ottoman murders 27 brothers to gain power
Pacific
- General: Mendana visits Marquesas and Nderic (Santa Cruz)
General
- Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins leave Americas on last voyage to Spainish main – Sir John Hawkins dies at sea near Puerto Rico