Cuyp ( 1594 – 1651 / 52 ), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light.

Nicolas Poussin ( 1594 – 1665 ), French.

* 1594 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer ( b. 1512 )

* 1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( d. 1632 )

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

* 1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer ( d. 1663 )

* 1594 – Henry IV is crowned King of France.

* Gerhard Mercator 1512 – 1594 ( Belgium & Germany )

Gustav II Adolf ( 9 December 1594 – 6 November 1632, O. S.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 3 February 1525 or 2 February 1526 – 2 February 1594 ) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.

* 1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the stabilization of the rule of the Principalía ( an elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines ).

On 30 October 1594, John Sigismund married Anna of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia ( 1553 – 1618 ).

* 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal ( d. 1632 )

* 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter ( b. 1594 )

* 1558 – Thomas Kyd, English author ( d. 1594 )

* 1632 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal ( b. 1594 )

The poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece, first published in 1593 and 1594 under the name " William Shakespeare ", proved highly popular for several decades – with Venus and Adonis published six more times before 1616, while Lucrece required four additional printings during this same period.

* Gerardus Mercator ( 1512 – 1594 ), an innovative cartographer and originator of the Mercator projection.

* 1594 – Francesco Manelli, Italian composer ( d. 1667 )

* Joachim Opser ( 1577 – 1594 )

* Bernhard Müller ( 1594 – 1630 )

The court is named for John Cosin ( 1594 – 1672 ) who was successively Master of Peterhouse, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and Prince-Bishop of Durham.

* December 29 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet ( b. 1594 )

* March 5 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish-German cartographer ( d. 1594 )

Having plundered the town, Hawkins pushed north, and in June 1594, a year after leaving Plymouth, he arrived in the Bay of San Mateo, at the mouth of the Esmeraldas river, nowadays Ecuador, at the position.

Having survived an outbreak of the plague in the city that year and again in 1594 his medical reputation began to spread.

Having fallen foul of his French colleagues, Norreys returned from Brest at the end of 1594.

He had already written The Wounds of Civil War ( produced perhaps as early as 1587, and published in 1594, and put on as a play reading at the Globe Theatre on 7 February 1606 ), a good second-rate piece in the half-chronicle fashion of its age.

In 1594 Raleigh conveyed Long Burton and Holnest to John Fitzjames, who was already lord of the neighbouring manor of Leweston.

In 1594, Ochsenhausen Abbey bought the second half of the revenues made from tithes, having already owned the first half for some time.

Pedro Téllez-Girón married on 17 January 1594 Catalina Enríquez de Ribera y Cortés In April 1594 he inherited the dukedom Afán de Ribera.

After the death of his father in 1593, his elder brother Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby had inherited the Earldom and its estates, but died a few months later in April 1594 leaving three daughters but no male heir.

The Huguenot leader, Henry of Navarre, the rightful King by traditional French inheritance laws, ultimately made good his claim to the throne, converted to Catholicism and was crowned in 1594.

Tomasz Zamoyski ( 1594 – 7 January 1638 ) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman ( szlachcic ) and magnate.

After Sigismund promised to uphold Swedish Lutheranism he was crowned king of Sweden in 1594 ; for a short time there was a personal union between Commonwealth and Sweden ( Polish – Swedish union ).

During the period of the union of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden under king Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish – Swedish union ), diets were held there ; and in 1594 and 1596 it was the meeting-place of two remarkable councils of the Roman-Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church bishops of the region ; the 1596 council establishing the Uniate Church ( known also as the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church in Belarus and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine ).

* Ishikawa Goemon ( 1558 – 1594 ) – Goemon reputedly tried to drip poison from a thread into Oda Nobunaga's mouth through a hiding spot in the ceiling, but many fanciful tales exist about Goemon, and this story cannot be confirmed.

The closure will continue through 1593 and into 1594.

In the Philippines, the encomienda was granted also to the local nobles ( Principalia ), through the law enacted by Philip II, on 11 June 1594.

He was sent on the mission 27 April 1589, and was apprehended at night through the instrumentality of an apostate priest named Thomas Clark at an inn at Tollerton, Yorkshire, upon St. Jerome's day, 30 September 1594.

On the accession of Queen Elizabeth ( 1558 – 1603 ) in 1558 an Act of Parliament was passed annexing and re-dissolving certain religious houses, including Syon, whereupon the nuns obtained royal license to leave England, eventually settling in Lisbon, Portugal, where they arrived in 1594, after having experienced many troubles and afflictions in travels through France and Spain.

In 1594 a very strong Tatar raid, carried by about 20, 000-30, 000 men led by the Khan of Crimea, Ğazı II Giray ( Gazi Gerej II ) plundered Pokucie and moved to Hungary through mountain passes, in order to plunder Habsburg lands.

A serious epidemic closed the theatres almost entirely from June 1592 through April 1594 ; 11, 000 Londoners died of plague in 1593.