Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s

Years: 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 - 1598 - 1599 1600 1601 1602 1603

• January 7 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia following the death of his brother-in-law, Tsar Feodor I
• April 13 - Edict of Nantes - Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics. Considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.
• May 2 - Peace of Vervins - End of war between France and Spain
• September 25 - Battle of Stängebro. The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles Albert. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.

• 1598 in art

• April 23 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral
• July 31 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini, sculptor

• Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese shogun
• September 13 - Philip II of Spain
• Tsar Feodor I of Russia\n