the saying Paris vaut bien une messe ("Paris is well worth a mass"). July 29 – The Long War breaks out in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. October 24–25 – Supposed date of the event described in the 1593 transported soldier legend. Date unknown Mihai Viteazul becomes prince of Walachia. Robert Bellarmine's Disputationes de Controversiis Christianae Fidei adversus hujus temporis Haereticos ("Controversiae") concludes publication in Ingolstadt. Henry Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes are written. The parish of Laukaa was founded. Khwaja Usman takes shelter in Goyghor Mosque after the Afghan rebellion against the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, Man Singh I. Irish pirate queen Grace O'Malley meets with Queen Elizabeth I of England at Greenwich. c. 1593-1604 – According to John Warwick Montgomery, the Rosicrucian manifestos are initially composed by Tobias Hess, in anticipation of the opening of the vault in 1604, according to Simon Studion's apocalyptic timetable. Births January–June January 1 – Sun Chuanting, Ming Dynasty general (d. 1643) January 10 – Prince Maurice of Savoy, Catholic cardinal and Prince of Savoy (d. 1657) February 8 – Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, French Catholic Cardinal (d. 1639) February 24 – Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1625) March 1 – Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1661) March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter (d. 1652) March 20 – Jean de La Haye, French preacher and biblical scholar (d. 1661) March 22 – Johann Ulrich Steigleder, German composer (d. 1635) March 25 – Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary who travelled to Canada in 1625 (d. 1649) April – Mumtaz Mahal, Queen of India (d. 1631) April 3 – George Herbert, Welsh-born English poet (d. 1633) April 4 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669) April 12 – Nicholas Martyn, English politician (d. 1653) April 13 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641) April 19 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1647) April 27 – Jérôme Lalemant, French Jesuit priest and missionary to Canada (d. 1673) May 2 John Forbes, Scottish theologian (d. 1648) Catherine de' Medici, Governor of Siena, Italian princess (d. 1629) May 5 – Cesare Monti, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1650) May 19 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678) Claude Vignon, French painter (d. 1670) June 3 – Richard Knightley, English politician (d. 1639) June 8 – George