1600

See also 1600 (number), 1600s

Events

January

• January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Year's Day

February

• February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned in a stake for heresy

July

• July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the coastal dunes.

October

• October 6 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving Opera, is premiered in Florence.
• October 8 - San Marino gains its written constitution.
• October 21 - Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, in which Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated Ishida Mitsunari, setting the stage for the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. End of the Azuchi-Momoyama period and beginning of the Edo period.

December

• December 31 - Royal charter incorporates the British East India Company in London

Undated

• Sumo Wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.
• William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed.
• William Gilbert publishes De Magnete which describes the Earth's magnetic field and

is the beginning of modern Geomagnetism.

• Fabritio Caroso's Nobiltà de dame is published.
• Battle of Suceava - Prince Sigismund Bathory of Transylvania is defeated by the Voivode Michael the Brave of Moldavia as part of the internecine conflict in Hungary and the Danubian Principalities.
• Ulster chieftains with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist English reconquest of Ireland

Births

• January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (died 1681)
• January 28 - Pope Clement IX (died 1669)
• February 2 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (died 1653)
• November 19 - King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1649)
• Jonas Bronck, Swedish colonist in America (died 1643)
• Edmund Calamy the Elder, English presbyterian (died 1666)
• Piaras Feiritéar, Irish language poet (died 1653)
• Gheorghe Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (died 1664)
• Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist (died 1674)
• Samuel Gorton, English sectary (died 1677)
• Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, English Royalist leader (died 1658)
• Peter Heylin, English ecclesiastical writer (died 1662)
• Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (died 1664)
• John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (died 1676)
• Anna Alojza Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (died 1654)
• William Prynne, English puritan politician (died 1669)
• Samuel Rutherford, English theologian and controversialist (died 1660)
• Brian Walton, English divine and scholar (died 1661)
• Tokugawa Yoshinao, Japanese nobleman (died 1650)

Deaths

• February 17 - Giordano Bruno, religious reformer (burned at the stake) (born 1548)
• July 17 - Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (born 1563)
• September 1 - Tadeás Hájek, Bohemian physician (born 1525)
• September 26 - Claude Le Jeune, French composer (born 1530)
• October 21 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese daimyo (born 1557)
• November 3 - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
• November 6 - Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated by a blunt wooden saw) (born 1560)
• November 6 - Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian daimyo (born 1555)
• November 8 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese daimyo (born 1562)
• November 17 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (born 1542)
• Jose de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1540)
• Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist (born 1543)
• Abe Masakatsu, Japanese nobleman (born 1541)
• Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici, illegitimate son of Alessandro de' Medici (born 1533)
• Thomas Nashe, English pamphleteer (born 1567)
• Nicholas Remy, French Catholic priest (born 1534)
• John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (born 1577)
• Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (born 1541)

References

• Spielvogel -- Western Civilization -- Volume II: Since 1500 (5th Edition), p.401