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 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 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 -- (5th Edition), p.401