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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

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

Years: 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 - 1605 - 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Polish troops occupy Moscow.
• November 5 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area. About 20 barrels of gunpowder were found and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill Parliament and King James I of England who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day.
• Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote is published.
• Pope Leo XI is elected, but dies before the year is out.
• May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope.

Births

• April 8 - King Philip IV of Spain
• Simon Dezhnev - A Russian Cossack navigator.
• Sir Thomas Browne English physician and philosopher October 19

Deaths

• October 15 - Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar, Mogul emperor
• Clement VIII, pope.
• Leo XI, pope.\n

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