Equestrian portrait of Henry IV of France in Paris. Photo credit Jastrow
In the year 1594, the Polish king Sigismund is crowned King of Sweden (Feb 19), Henry IV is crowned King of France after converting to Catholicism (Feb 27), Willem Barents makes his first voyage to the Arctic Ocean, in search of the Northeast Passage (Jun 5), the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Dutch Republic (Jul 22), Jesuits found St. Paul’s College in Macau, the first western style university in the far east, the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) goes on - and all these fine people were born:
1594-xxxx Olof Trabeen** (b Thraeben) father of Esbjörn Olssen Trabeen - Helsingborg, Denmark-Norway (1639) aby
1594-0101 Barthélemy Vimont* Jesuit missionary in New France - Lisieux, Kingdom of France (1667/73)
1594-0112 Gregers Krabbe* Danish nobleman/Governor-general of Norway - Vesløsgård estate, Jutland, Denmark (1655/61)
1594-0124 Pierre de Marca* French Archbishop of Paris/historian - Gan, Kingdom of Navarre (1662/68)
1594-0202 Philip Powell* lawyer/ priest/beatified martyr - Trallong, Brecknockshire, Wales (1646/52)
1594-0205 Biagio Marini* Italian virtuoso violinist/composer - Brescia (1663/69)
1594-0216 Juliana Morell* Catalan child prodigy/allegedly the first woman to receive a university degree/Dominican nun - Barcelona, Spanish Empire (1653/59)
1594-0226 William Wadsworth* early pioneer of New England/patriarch of many prominent descendants/to America at age 38 - Long Buckby, England (1675/81)
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1594-0325 Maria Tesselschade Visscher* poet/ glass engraver - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1649/55)
1594-0421 Bernardino Spada* Roman Catholic Cardinal/patron of the arts - Brisighella, Emilia-Romagna (1661/67)
1594-0429 Samuel Fairclough* nonconformist minister - Haverhill, Suffolk, England (1677/83)
1594-0501 John Haynes* colonial magistrate/one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony/to America at age 39 - Messing, Essex, England (1653/c. 59)
1594-0509 Louis Henry of Nassau-Dillenburg* nobleman/military leader in the Thirty Years' War - Saarbrücken (1662/68)
1594-0529 Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim* field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War - Treuchtlingen, Kingdom of Bavaria (1632/38)
1594-0603 César de Bourbon* Duke of Vendôme/illegitimate son of Henry IV of France - Château de Coucy, Picardy, Kingdom of France (1665/71)
1594-0615 Nicolas Poussin* painter – Les Andelys, Normandy, Kingdom of France (1665/71)
1594-0623 Thomas Tyrrell* judge/ politician - Thornton Hall, Buckinghamshire, England (1672/77)
1594-0710 Bartolomeo Gennari* Italian painter - Cento, Emilia-Romagna (1661/66)
1594-0714 Beat Albrecht von Ramstein* German Catholic bishop/Prince-Bishop of Basel - Waldighofen (1651/57)
1594-0804 Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł* Polish-Lithuanian nobleman/ - Nieśwież (1654/59)
1594-0816 Queen Inyeol* Korean royal consort - Wonju, Kingdom of Joseon (1636/41)
1594-0913 Francesco Manelli* Roman theorbo player/opera composer - Tivoli, Lazio (1667/c. 73)
1594-0930 Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant* poet - near Rouen, Kingdom of France (1661/67)
1594-1004 Johan Schatter* brewer/mayor and voluntary civil guard of Haarlem - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1673/78)
1594-1027 Johann Rudolf Wettstein* mayor of Basel/diplomat/influential in Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire - Basel, Holy Roman Empire (1666/69)
1594-1115 Jean Puget de la Serre* French author/dramatist - Toulouse, Kingdom of France (1665/70)
1594-1126 James Ware* politician/ historian/genealogist - Dublin, Ireland (1666/72)
1594-1207 Frederik Coning* painter /voluntary civil guard - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1636/41)
1594-1208 Pierre Petit* engineer/ physicist/astronomer - Montluçon, Kingdom of France (1677/82)
1594-1209 Gustav II Adolf* King of Sweden/credited for the rise of Sweden as a great European power – Stockholm, Sweden (1632/37)
1594-1221 Robert Sutton* Baron Lexinton/politician - England (1668/73)
1594-1227 Ove Gjedde* nobleman/ admiral/established the Danish colony at Tharangambadi in India - Tomarps Kungsgård Castle, Scania, Denmark-Norway (1660/65)
Updated 30.3.2023-1
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