Life In Good Measure

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Data for 1593

1593KingNaresuan Siamese King Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, kills Burmese Crown Prince Minchit Sra, leading to Burmese forces leaving Siam (Jan 25), the Roman Inquisition opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno (Jan 27), the struggle between the Protestant Reformation (with break from the Roman Catholic Church) and the failed attempt to bring back Catholic liturgy concludes in Uppsala, Sweden (Feb 25), the Habsburgs defeat Ottoman Empire in Croatia (Jun 22) - and all these fine people were born:

1593-0110 Prince Maurice of Savoy* cardinal/owner of the future Unesco World Heritage Site Villa della Regina - (1657/64) 1593-0208 Louis de Nogaret de La Valette* Roman Catholic cardinal/ lieutenant general - Angoulême, France (1639/46) 1593-0313 Georges de La Tour* painter - Vic-sur-Seille, France, Holy Roman Empire (1652/58) 1593-0403 George Herbert* poet/orator/ priest of the Church of England - Montgomery, Wales (1633/39) 1593-0519 Claude Vignon* painter/printmaker/illustrator – Tours, France (1670/76) 1593-0620 Thomas Nash (B) inn keeper – Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1647/53) 1593-0908 Toyotomi Hideyori* 豊臣 秀頼 designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi – Japan (1615/21) 1593-0922 Matthäus Merian* engraver/ran a publishing house in Frankfurt - Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy (1650/56) Updated 18.9.2021-1 Search for another year here Sources: http://thairesidents.com/lifestyle/naresuan-museum-celebrates-rich-history/