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1600

Events of 1600

February 17 - Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.
May 6 - Prince Sigismund Bathory of Transylvania loses the city of Suceava is to the Voivode Michael the Brave of Wallachia, during the internecine conflict in Hungary and the Danubian Principalities. For the first time, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia became one country (the actual Romania). However, the union ends one year later when Michael the Brave is killed.

July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert of Austria in a battle on the coastal dunes.
July 10 - Tycho observes a solar eclipse from Benatký. Shortly afterwards, he moves to Prague.
July - Astronomer Longomontanus arrives in Prague, where he works with the Moon orbital theory; he brings the rest of Tycho's astronomical instruments with him. (All arrive by November 10).

October - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, shows the first signs of his growing mental instability.
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 14 - The Spanish galleon San Diego is sunk off the Philippines.
December 31 - A Royal charter incorporates the British East India Company in London.

Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.
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.
Ulster chieftains, with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist the English reconquest of Ireland.

February 13 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
February 17 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (born 1548)
April - Thomas Deloney, English writer (born 1543)
July 17 - Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (born 1563)
August 5 - John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (born 1577)
August 27 - Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (born 1541)
September 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (born 1525)
September 26 - Claude Le Jeune, French composer (born 1530)
October 12 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
October 21 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (born 1557)
November 3 - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
November 6 - Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (born 1560)
November 6 - Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian warlord (born 1555)
November 8 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (born 1562)
November 17 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (born 1542)
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C 1605- Charles 1 Became Kingg/ Gunpowder Plot