1600
- See also 1600 (number), 1600s
| Years: 1597 1598 1599 – 1600 – 1601 1602 1603 | |
| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s | |
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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 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 (d. 1681)
- January 28 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
- November 19 – King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1649)
Deaths
- February 17 – Giordano Bruno, religious reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
- November 6 – Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated by a blunt wooden saw) (b. 1560)
References
- Spielvogel — Western Civilization — Volume II: Since 1500 (5th Edition), p.401
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