Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s - 1590s - 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s
Years: 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 - 1599 - 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604
Events Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden Births February 13 - Pope Alexander VII (+ 1667) March 22 - Anthony van Dyck, painter (+ 1641) April 25 - Oliver Cromwell, later Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland John Alden, English settler of the Plymouth Colony, passenger of the Mayflower Deaths April 10 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress to French King, Henri IV
