There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.

St Albans also had a legend, recorded in John Norden's Speculum Britanniae ( 1596 ) that a ruined marble tomb of Mandeville ( represented cross-legged and in armour, with sword and shield ) once stood in the abbey ; this may be true of " Mangevilayn " or it may be a mere myth.

Two years later, in 1596, Japan once again invaded.

Similarly, the influences of philosophers such as Sir Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ) and René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), who demanded more rigor in mathematics and in removing bias from scientific observations, led to a scientific revolution.

In 1596, three more ships sailed east ; however, these were all lost at sea.

Henri IV also recognized and legitimized two more children he had with Gabrielle: Catherine-Henriette de Bourbon, a daughter born in 1596, and Alexandre de Bourbon, a son born in 1598.

* One or more works in Green Bay Road Historic District, Roughly, area surrounding 10 S to 1596 N Green Bay Rd.

There are in existence five or more accounts of Shirley's adventures in Persia, and the account of his expedition in 1596 is published in Richard Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries ( 1809-1812 ).

According to Akrigg, Arundell figures much more prominently in Rosier's account than Southampton, leading Akrigg to conclude that ' the whole voyage may best be regarded as a first attempt to found an American colony that would be an asylum for English Catholics ', and that Arundell, who in 1596 had planned a venture to the East Indies, was the principal impetus behind the Weymouth voyage.

The first fleet sailed in 1596 and returned in 1597 with a cargo of pepper, which more than covered the costs of the voyage.

René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) revived the Augustinian doctrine of the primacy of self – certainty and made it basic to his system: Cogito, ergo sum ( or more correctly, cogito sum, simply ).

He is best known for the enormous Scriptum super primum Sententiarum, his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, which runs to more than 1100 folio pages and was eventually printed in Rome in 1596.

Ottoman tax registers from 1596 showed a population of 29 Muslim families.

Subsequently René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) showed, by using geometric construction and the law of refraction ( also known as Descartes ' law ), that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 ° ( i. e. the angle subtended at the eye by the edge of the rainbow and the rainbow's centre is 42 °).

René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed analytic geometry, an alternative method for formalizing geometry.

Her reign is famous for the defeat of the Armada, and for successful raids against the Spanish, such as those on Cádiz in 1587 and 1596, but some historians point to military failures on land and at sea.

In 1596, Eger fell to the Ottomans for the same reason.

Ottoman defeats in the war caused Mehmed III to take personal command of the army, the first sultan to do so since Suleyman I. Mehmed III's armies conquered Eger in 1596 and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Keresztes ( Turkish for Battle of Hacova ) during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle.

The next council, in 1596, was called to discuss the furthering of the observance of the decrees of the Council of Trent., and the 1609 council was held for very similar circumstances.

This was observed and documented for the first time in 1596, when a ship under the command of Willem Barents in search of the Northeast passage became stuck in the ice at Novaya Zemlya.

Anne drew criticism from the Kirk for keeping Henrietta Gordon, wife of the exiled Catholic George Gordon, Marquess of Huntly, as a confidante ; after Huntly's return in 1596, the St Andrews minister David Black called Anne an atheist and remarked in a sermon that " the Queen of Scotland was a woman for whom, for fashion's sake, the clergy might pray but from whom no good could be hoped.

In 1596, disappointed by the failure of previous expeditions, the States-General announced they would no longer subsidize similar voyages – but instead offered a high reward for anybody who successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.

The earliest known use of the name trifle was for a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater, the recipe for which was published in England, 1596, in a book called " The good huswife's Jewell " by Thomas Dawson.

It was republished in 1596 ( again by Short for Burbie ), and again in 1607 by Valentine Simmes for Nicholas Ling.

In the summer of 1596 he returned to Antwerp, where he remained for the rest of his life apart from short journeys to Prague and to the Dutch Republic.

The cost of upkeep fell upon the town, although in 1596 and at irregular intervals later the Archdeacon was allowed to collect money for repairs by Brief in the diocese.

He also travelled throughout Great Britain to view documents, sites, and artefacts for himself: he is known to have visited East Anglia in 1578, Yorkshire and Lancashire in 1582, Devon in 1589, Wales in 1590, Salisbury, Wells and Oxford in 1596, and Carlisle and Hadrian's Wall in 1599.

The Catholic League was eventually defeated, but for the sake of the country King Henry IV bought peace with Mayenne, and in January 1596 a treaty was signed that put an end to the League.

Frederick V () ( 16 August 1596 – 29 November 1632 ) was Elector Palatine ( 1610 – 23 ), and, as Frederick I (), King of Bohemia ( 1619 – 20 ); for his short reign he is often nicknamed the Winter King ( Czech: Zimní král ; German: Winterkönig ).

In 1596, in Seville, he wrote Memorial for the Reformation of England, which gave in some detail a blueprint for the kind of society England was to become after its return to the faith.

In 1596, he became first professor of geometry in the recently founded Gresham College, London ; he would lecture there for nearly 23 years, and would make Gresham college a center of English mathematics, from which he would notably support the new ideas of Johannes Kepler.

Subsequently, however, he moved to London, where the first mention of his dramatic career is a note in the diary of theatre entrepreneur Philip Henslowe recording that he wrote a play for the Admiral's Men, an acting company, in October 1596.

An enquiry into the state of the College lasted for one year, finally reporting to William Cecil, Baron Burghley in 1596, as a consequence many important measures of reform for the College were made in the reign of James I.

Japan has had 15 destructive ones ( eight of them disastrous ) since 1596.

* 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king ( d. 1632 )

* 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ( d. 1662 )

Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

* 1656 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter ( b. 1596 )

The Ottoman tax record and census from 1596 indicates that Bethlehem had a population of 1, 435, making it the 13th largest village in Palestine at the time.

Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1575 and 1596.

The speculation that continents might have ' drifted ' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596.

420 light-years from Earth, it was discovered by David Fabricius in 1596.

In response to Hobbes, the French Philosopher Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed Cartesian Dualism, which posits that there is a divisible, mechanical body and an indivisible, immaterial mind which interact with one another.

' Oxford's letters and memoranda indicate that he pursued his suit into 1596, and renewed it again three years later, but was ultimately unsuccessful in obtaining the tin monopoly.

The first part of Henry IV was probably written and performed in 1596, and the name Oldcastle had almost certainly been allowed by Master of the Revels Edmund Tilney.

In 1596, Bacon became Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of Master of the Rolls.

Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral ( 1540 – 27 January 1596 ) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era.

He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The great plague of 1596 – 1602 killed 600, 000 to 700, 000 people, or about 10 % of the population.

View of Toledo by El Greco, between 1596 and 1600.

Most scholars reject the idea that Hamlet is in any way connected with Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet Shakespeare, who died in 1596 at age eleven.

Mysterium was published late in 1596, and Kepler received his copies and began sending them to prominent astronomers and patrons early in 1597 ; it was not widely read, but it established Kepler ’ s reputation as a highly skilled astronomer.

* 1541 – Florent Chrestien, French writer ( d. 1596 )

* 1596 – Michael I of Russia ( d. 1645 )