1592

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Year 1592 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1592

January 30 - Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope.
February 8 - George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, sets fire to Donibristle Castle and murders James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray.
April 4 - The future Henry IV of France, King designated by Henry III of France, announce in a declaration, so-called "Expedient" his intention to follow an instruction in the catholic religion in the deliberateness to convert. (Also see: 1593, 1594 and 1598.)
April 13 - Beginning of the Siege of Busan.
April 24 - The Japanese are victorious over the Koreans at the Battle of Sangju.
April 28 - In the Battle of Ch'ungju, Japan inflicts a decisive defeat on Korea.
May 29 - Turtle ships make their first appearance in action, at the Battle of Sacheon.

July 3 - The Koreans are victorious over the Japanese in the naval Battle of Hansan.
July 30 - Alonso de Sotomayor, petitions the viceroy of Peru for more troops to help resist attacks by Indians and English pirates.
October 7 - The Battle of Okpo is another naval victory for Korea over Japan.

Founding of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
Thomas Kyd publishes The Spanish Tragedy.
Seven-Year War between Korea and Japan starts.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I of England, is taken seriously ill.
Negotiations begin for the dissolution of the childless marriage of Henry IV of France and Marguerite de Valois.
The Confucian shrine of Munmyo is destroyed by fire.

**1592 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1592 MDXCII
Ab urbe condita	2345
Armenian calendar	1041 ԹՎ ՌԽԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-252 – -251
Buddhist calendar	2136
Chinese calendar	4228/4288-11-17 (辛卯年十一月十七日) — to — 4229/4289-11-28 (壬辰年十一月廿八日)
Ethiopian calendar	1584 – 1585
Hebrew calendar	5352 – 5353
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1647 – 1648
- Shaka Samvat	1514 – 1515
- Kali Yuga	4693 – 4694
Holocene calendar	11592
Iranian calendar	970 – 971
Islamic calendar	1000 – 1001
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 20 (天正20年) — changed to — Bunroku 1 (文禄元年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2252 (皇紀2252年)
- Jōmon Era	11592
Julian calendar	1637
Korean calendar	3925
Thai solar calendar	2135
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