Information about 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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Events of 1596
January - June
- 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 - December
- 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 24/26 - Battle of Keresztes
Undated
- 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.
- 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.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1596 MDXCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2349 |
| Armenian calendar | 1045 ԹՎ ՌԽԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -248 – -247 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2140 |
| Chinese calendar | 4232/4292-7-28 (乙未年七月廿八日) — to — 4233/4293-7-8(丙申年七月初八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1312 – 1313 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1588 – 1589 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5356 – 5357 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1651 – 1652 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1518 – 1519 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4697 – 4698 |
| Holocene calendar | 11596 |
| Iranian calendar | 974 – 975 |
| Islamic calendar | 1004 – 1005 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 0 (慶長0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2256 (皇紀2256年) |
| Julian calendar | 1641 |
| Korean calendar | 3929 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2139 |
- 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)
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- 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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Deaths
- 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)
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- Henry Willobie, English poet (born 1575)
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- Ethiopia - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (1563-1597)
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- Bukhara - Abdullah Khan II, Khan of Bukhara (1577-1598)
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