1600

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605

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See also: 1600 in literature 1600 in music 1600 in science

Events

• Europe's populatioin was ~85 million. (Spielvogel)
• January 1- Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Year's Day
• 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 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.
• Girolamo Aleandro the Younger's Gaii, veteris juris consulti Institutionum fragmenta, cum commentario 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.
• 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.
• December 31 - British East India Company is chartered

Births

• November 19 - Prince Charles Stuart, later King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Deaths

• February 17 - Giordano Bruno, religious reformer (burned at the stake).

References

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

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