In the year AD 1595...

An attempt by [Ottoman Empire|Ottoman] generalissimo [Sinan Pasha] to invade [Romania] with over 150,000 troops is turned back by [Hapsburg] forces when he is defeated first by [Sigismund Bathory] at the [Battle at Giurgevo], and then again by [Michael the Brave] at the [Battle of Calugaren].
French king [Henry IV] defeats a joint attempt by the [Catholic League] and the [Spanish] to invade [France] at the [Battle of Fontaine-Francaise], bringing a final end to the League and also to any significant military efforts by Spain to undermine his rule.
The [Treaty of Tyavzino] brings an end to the [Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595], restoring to [Russia] the lands [Sweden] had captured in the [Livonian War].
A Spanish force under [Don Carlos de Amesquita] lands at [Penzance] in southwestern [England], sacks the town and surrounding villages, holds a Catholic mass, and then departs.
Ottoman sultan [Murad III] passes away, and is succeeded by his son, the notorious [Mehmed III]. In order to secure his rule, Mehmed has 27 of his brothers and 20 of his sisters murdered, strangled to death by his [elite hit squad of deaf-mutes].
[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh] leads an English expedition to the coast of northern South America now known as [Guiana] in an effort to find the fabled golden city of [El Dorado]. The expedition penetrates 300 miles inland up the [Orinoco River] and does find some small bits of gold, but no El Dorado.
Queen [Elizabeth I] of [England] dispatches her most famous admiral, [Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake], on what will be his final voyage, a mission to raid Spanish shipping in the [Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]. But the Spanish are much better prepared this time and Drake suffers a series of disastrous defeats, climaxing with a failed attempt to capture [San Juan, Puerto Rico] in which he is nearly killed by a Spanish cannonball.
[William Shakespeare] completes his plays [Romeo And Juliet] and [A Midsummer Night's Dream].

These people were born in 1595:

Algonquian princess [Pocahontas].
Future king of [Poland] [Ladislaus IV].
[Bogdan Khmelnitsky], future leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks in their struggles against [Poland].
Hindi poet [Bihari Lal Chaube].
French novelist and playwright [Jean Desmarets].
English poet [Thomas Carew].
French poet [Jean Chapelain].
Future French grand admiral and Marshall of France [Henri II de Montmorency].

These people died in 1595:

Ottoman sultan [Murad III], succeeded by his son [Mehmet III], who proceeds to murder many of his other 102 children.
Italian poet [Torquato Tasso].
Persian poet [Faizi], poet laureate to the court of Mughal emperor [Akbar|Akbar the Great].
Japanese warlord [Toyotomi Hidetsugu], adopted son of [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], ordered to commit suicide along with his entire family by Hideyoshi so that Hideyoshi could make his biological son [Toyotomi Hideyori] his heir.
Italian Jesuit priest Saint [Philip Neri], founder of the [Congregation of the Oratory].
English Jesuit poet [Robert Southwell], hanged for treason.
English astronomer [Thomas Digges], an early popularizer of science.
English naval commander [John Hawkins], chief architect of the British navy under [Elizabeth I], of illness off [Puerto Rico] while on a privateering expedition under [Sir Francis Drake].

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