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Calendar year
July 2 :
Battle of Nieuwpoort .
1600 (
MDC ) was a
century leap year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
leap year starting on Tuesday of the
Julian calendar , the 1600th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 600th year of the
2nd millennium , the 100th and last year of the
16th century , and the 1st year of the
1600s decade. As of the start of 1600, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
In the Gregorian calendar, it was the last century leap year until the year
2000 .
Events
January–March
April–June
April 19 – The first
Dutch ship ever to arrive in
Japan , the Liefde ("Love"), anchors in
Sashifu , in the
Bungo Province (modern-day
Usuki in
Ōita Prefecture ). The sailors present on this ship are
William Adams ,
Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn ,
Jacob Quaeckernaeck and
Melchior van Santvoort .
May 27 –
Michael the Brave becomes ruler of
Wallachia ,
Transylvania and
Moldavia , formally uniting the three
Danubian Principalities under one Romanian ruler.
June 5 –
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , the former
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and
Chancellor of the University of Dublin , is put on trial in England before a commission of 18 men, after being charged with malfeasance. He is deprived of his main business, a monopoly on sweet wines, and stripped of his noble title. In revenge, he attempts to organize
a coup d'etat to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and fails in his plot.
June 9 – Yi Hang-bok becomes the new
Chief State Councillor of Korea (the Yeonguijeong ), equivalent to a prime minister, after being appointed by
King Seonjo to replace
Yi San-hae .
June 13 – Barrister
Nicholas Fuller is granted the exclusive right in England to manufacture
playing cards .
[5]
June 25 – In England, a fire destroys much of the town of
North Walsham ,
Norfolk , burning down 118 homes, 70 shops, and most of the stalls in the
market square . The fire is traced to the home of one person who tries to flee town after the blaze begins. Many of the persons left homeless are given shelter at the
St Nicholas Church .
July–September
July 2 –
Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) –
Battle of Nieuwpoort : The
Dutch Republic gains a tactical victory over the
Spanish Empire .
[6]
August 5 – The brothers
Alexander Ruthven and
John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie , are killed during a failed attempt to kidnap or murder
King James VI of Scotland at their home.
September 18 – The
Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General
Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.
September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship
Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan.
[7] The Liefde , a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.
October–December
October 6 – The première of
Jacopo Peri 's
Euridice , the earliest known fully surviving work of modern opera, takes place in
Florence for the wedding of
Henry IV of France and
Maria de' Medici .
Emilio de' Cavalieri stages the production.
[8]
October 8 – The basic
legal system for the Republic of
San Marino goes into effect during the service of
captains regent Girolamo Gozi and Francesco Giannini.
October 20 –
Persian diplomats , led by Husayn 'Ali Beg of Persia, and Englishman
Anthony Shirley (who serves as translator) arrive in
Prague to meet with
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor .
[9]
October 21 – The
Battle of Sekigahara occurs in what is now present-day
Gifu prefecture ,
Japan , where the Eastern Army led by
Tokugawa Ieyasu emerges victorious against the Western Army led by
Ishida Mitsunari . The battle ends the
Sengoku period and grants the
Tokugawa clan nominal control over Japan, establishing the
Tokugawa shogunate with Tokugawa Ieyasu as
shōgun .
November 7 –
Emperor Rudolf II grants an audience in
Prague to Persian diplomats Husayn 'Ali Beg and Anthony Shirley, and present the offer of Persia's King
Abbas the Great to supply weapons to the Empire in their fight against the Ottomans.
[9]
[10]
November 15 –
Thessaly rebellion : Greek farmers in Thessaly, incited by Bishop
Dionysios Skylosophos , begin an uprising against the
Ottoman Empire , with violence in an area bounded by
Trikala and
Karditsa and the surrounding mountains, but the rebellion is suppressed by the Ottomans in a few days.
[11]
December 31 – The
East India Company is granted a
Royal Charter in the
Kingdom of England for trade with Asia.
Date unknown
Births
John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Charles I of England
January–March
January 1 –
Friedrich Spanheim , Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden (d.
1649 )
January 17 –
Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Spanish playwright (d.
1681 )
[12]
January 22 –
Elisabet Juliana Banér , Swedish noble (d.
1640 )
January 23 –
Alexander Keirincx , Flemish painter (d.
1652 )
January 28 –
Pope Clement IX (d.
1669 )
[13]
February –
Edmund Calamy the Elder , English Presbyterian (d.
1666 )
February 1 –
Johan Evertsen , Dutch admiral (d.
1666 )
February 2 –
Gabriel Naudé , French librarian and scholar (d.
1653 )
February 6 –
Matthew Brend , English landowner (d.
1659 )
February 9 –
Jean-Joseph Surin , French Jesuit writer (d.
1665 )
February 24 –
Manuel António of Portugal , Dutch-Portuguese nobleman (d.
1666 )
February 26 –
Matsudaira Norinaga , Japanese daimyō (d.
1654 )
March 3
March 19 –
Anders Bille , Danish general (d.
1657 )
March 26 –
Matthew Marvin, Sr. , Connecticut settler (d.
1678 )
April–June
July–September
Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg
July 1 –
George Gobat , French theologian (d.
1679 )
July 15 –
Jan Cossiers , Flemish painter (d.
1671 )
July 20 –
Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet , Sheriff of Shropshire (d.
1659 )
July 22
August 7 –
Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg , Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d.
1657 )
August 16 –
Maria Celeste , Italian nun, daughter of
Galileo Galilei (d.
1634 )
August 24 –
Antoine de Laloubère , French Jesuit mathematician (d.
1664 )
August 29 –
John Stawell , English Member of Parliament and governor of
Taunton (d.
1662 )
September 5 –
Loreto Vittori , Italian singer and composer (d.
1670 )
September 19
September 29 –
Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet , English politician (d.
1645 )
September 30 –
Francis Bacon , English politician and Ipswich MP (d.
1663 )
October–December
October 1 –
Dirk Graswinckel , Dutch jurist (d.
1666 )
October 2 –
Petronio Veroni , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boiano (1652–1653) (d.
1653 )
October 4 –
Giovanni Paolo Oliva , Italian Jesuit (d.
1681 )
November –
John Ogilby , English writer and cartographer (d.
1676 )
November 15 –
Aniello Falcone , Italian Baroque painter (d.
1665 )
November 19
December 12 –
Denis of the Nativity , French sailor and cartographer (d.
1638 )
December 14 –
Anna Magdalene of Hanau , German countess (d.
1673 )
December 15 –
Selius Marselis , Dutch/Norwegian tradesman (d.
1663 )
December 20 –
Nicolas Sanson , French cartographer (d.
1667 )
December –
Marie de Rohan , French courtier and political activist (d.
1679 )
Date unknown
Probable
Deaths
Sebastian de Aparicio
Shima Sakon
Richard Hooker
Margrave Andrew of Burgau
January–March
January 9 –
John Spencer , English landowner and politician (b.
1549 )
January 21 –
Jerzy Radziwiłł , Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) from the Radziwiłł family (b.
1556 )
February 9 –
John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania , Protestant Bishop of Cammin (1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b.
1542 )
February 15 –
José de Acosta , Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b.
1540 )
February 17 –
Giordano Bruno , Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b.
1548 )
[16]
February 25 –
Sebastian de Aparicio , Spanish colonial industrialist,
Roman Catholic priest and blessed in Mexico (b.
1502 )
February 29 –
Caspar Hennenberger , German historian and cartographe (b.
1529 )
March 6 –
Johann Major , German poet and theologian (b.
1533 )
March 20 –
Gustaf Banér , Swedish noble (b.
1547 )
April 1 –
Esperanza Malchi , Ottoman businessperson
April –
Thomas Deloney , English writer (b.
1543 )
April–June
July–September
July 5 –
Jean Kincaid , Scottish murderer (b.
1579 )
July 7 –
Thomas Lucy , English politician (b.
1532 )
July 20 –
William More , English courtier (b.
1520 )
July 27 –
John Glanville , English politician (b.
1542 )
August 5
August 18 –
Sebastiano Montelupi , Italian businessman (b.
1516 )
August 22 –
Nicasius de Sille , Dutch diplomat (b.
1543 )
August 25 –
Hosokawa Gracia , Japanese noblewoman (b.
1563 )
August 27 –
Mizuno Tadashige , Japanese nobleman (b.
1541 )
September 1 –
Tadeáš Hájek , Czech physician and astronomer (b.
1525 )
September 25 –
Antoine du Verdier , French politician (b.
1544 )
[19]
September 26 –
Claude Le Jeune , French composer (b.
1530 )
[20]
October–December
October 12 –
Luis de Molina , Spanish Jesuit priest and philosopher (b.
1535 )
[21]
October 16 –
Nicolaus Reimers , German astronomer (b.
1551 )
October 17 –
Cornelis de Jode , Flemish cartographer, engraver and publisher (b.
1568 )
October 21
November 3 –
Richard Hooker , English Anglican theologian (b.
1554 )
November 6
November 8 –
Natsuka Masaie , Japanese warlord (b.
1562 )
November 12 –
Margrave Andrew of Burgau , German nobleman, Cardinal, Bishop of Constance and Brixen (b.
1558 )
November 15 –
Sigmund Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn , bishop of Regensburg (b.
1542 )
November 17 –
Kuki Yoshitaka , Japanese naval commander (b.
1542 )
November 25 –
Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Duke of Osuna , Spanish duke (b.
1559 )
November 30 –
Nanda Bayin , King of Burma (b.
1535 )
December 3 –
Roger North, 2nd Baron North , English politician (b.
1530 )
December 16 –
Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1569–1600) (b.
1560 )
Full date missing
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