* 1593 – Pierre Barrière fails in his attempt to assassinate King Henry IV of France.

* 1593 – Izaak Walton, English author ( d. 1683 )

From his research grew his Disputationes de controversiis christianae fidei ( also called Disputationes ), first published at Ingolstadt in 1581 – 1593.

The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen ( 1518 – 1593 AD ) during the Ming Dynasty of China.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 ) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610.

* 1683 – Izaak Walton, English writer ( b. 1593 )

* 1677 – Samuel Gorton, English activist and writer ( b. 1593 )

However, once occupied by the Quito hosts of Huayna Capac ( 1593 – 1595 ), the Incas developed an extensive administration and began the colonization of the region.

* 1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist ( d. 1593 )

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

The family tree of Louis III, Duke of Württemberg | Ludwig Herzog von Württemberg ( ruled 1568 – 1593 )

In her 1915 work The Pulleynes of Yorkshire, author Catharine Pullein suggested that Fawkes's Catholic education came from his Harrington relatives, who were known for harbouring priests, one of whom later accompanied Fawkes to Flanders in 1592 – 1593.

* 1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

* 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary ( b. 1593 )

* 1517 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan ( d. 1593 )

* 1518 – Li Shizhen, Chinese physician ( d. 1593 )

* 1593 – Battle of Sisak: Allied Christian troops defeat the Turks.

* 1593 – Mohammed Bagayogo, Malian scholar ( b. 1523 )

* 1593 – The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.

It was continued by various writers and grew to twenty-one volumes ( 1633 – 1738 ), including illustrations by the beautiful copperplate engravings of Matthäus Merian ( 1593 – 1650 ).

* 1593 – The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.

* 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

* 1641 – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman ( b. 1593 )

Artemisia Gentileschi ( July 8, 1593 – c. 1656 ) was an Italian Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation after Caravaggio.

Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome on 8 July 1593, the eldest child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi.

* possible-Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter ( born 1593 )

* April 8 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener ( died 1593 )

** Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian artist ( d. 1593 )

* Giuseppe Arcimboldo ( Italian, 1527 – 1593 ) Best known for his bizarre Mannerist fruit and vegetable portraits

Leonardo Agostini ( 1593 – 1669 ) was an Italian antiquary of the 17th century, born at Grosseto, near Siena.

* Ferdinando I De Medici, Document Inviting Jewish Merchants to Settle in Livorno and Pisa, in Italian, Manuscript on Vellum, Florence, Italy, 10 June 1593 ( fac-simile )

Giovanni Battista Doni ( c. 1593 – 1647 ) was an Italian musicologist who made an extensive study of ancient music.

* October 18 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter ( b. 1593 )

* Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ( 1527 – 1593 ) painter

Xu Wei (, 1521 — 1593 ) was a Ming Chinese painter, poet, writer and dramatist famed for his artistic expressiveness.

* Georges de la Tour ( French, 1593 – 1652 ) French caravaggesque painter

Georges de La Tour ( March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652 ) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648.

* Jan van de Velde ( b. 1593 ), Dutch engraver and painter ; cousin of the above

* Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician ( died 1593 )

* 1593 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary ( d. 1649 )

* 1513 – Jacques Amyot, French writer ( d. 1593 )

* 1593 – Gottfried Scheidt, German composer and organist ( d. 1661 )

* February 26 ( baptized ) – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist ( d. 1593 )

** Henry Barrowe, English Puritan and Separatist ( d. 1593 )

* April 18 – William Harrison, English clergyman ( d. 1593 )

** Jeong Cheol, Korean administrator and poet ( d. 1593 )

** John Penry, Welsh Protestant martyr ( d. 1593 )

** Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist ( d. 1593 )*

* October 30 – Jacques Amyot, French writer ( d. 1593 )

* Adam Bothwell d. 1593.

Those of 1588 ended with a regular coup d ' etat effected by Henry III, and the States summoned by the League, which sat in Paris in 1593 and whose chief object was to elect a Catholic king, were not a success.

The most important work of his life was his co-operation in the production of the Satire Ménippée ( 1593 ), which did so much to damage the cause of the Catholic League ; the harangue of the Sieur d ' Aubray is usually attributed to Pithou.

On 28 February 1599, at the age of 15, he married his cousin Mary, then aged 21, (' notwithstanding the disparity of years betwixt us '), who was daughter and heiress of Sir William Herbert ( d. 1593 ).

– d. in 1592 or 1593?

In religion, Protestantism was a driving force in the use of the vernacular in Christian Europe, the Bible being translated from Latin into vernacular languages with such works as the Bible in Dutch: published in 1526 by Jacob van Liesvelt ; Bible in French: published in 1528 by Jacques Lefevre d ’ Étaples ( or Faber Stapulensis ); German Luther Bible in 1534 ; Bible in Spanish: published in Basel in 1569 by Casiodoro de Reina ( Biblia del Oso ); Bible in Czech: Bible of Kralice, printed between 1579 and 1593 ; Bible in English: King James Bible, published in 1611.

The title Baron Gerard, of Gerards Bromley, was created in the Peerage of England on 21 July 1603 for Sir Thomas Gerard ( d. 1617 ), son of Sir Gilbert Gerard ( d. 1593 ) Attorney General between 1559 and 1581 and Master of the Rolls in 1581, who acquired estates at Gerards Bromley and Hilderstone, Staffordshire.

It remained with the Denys family until after 1600, Richard Denys ( d. 1593 ) having sold it to his younger brother Thomas Denys, son-in-law of Thomas Bell the Younger of Gloucester.