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Year '''1600''' was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the 10-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
== Events of 1600 ==
=== January - June ===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Scotland]] adopts [[January 1]] as [[New Year's Day]].
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* [[February 17]] - [[Giordano Bruno]] is burned at the stake for [[Christian heresy|heresy]] in [[Rome]].
* [[February 19]] - [[Huaynaputina]] volcano undergoes a catastrophic eruption, the worst to be recorded in South America.
* [[May 6]] - Prince [[Sigismund Bathory]] of [[Transylvania]] loses the city of [[Suceava]] 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 - December ===
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* [[July 2]] - [[Battle of Nieuwpoort]]: Dutch forces under [[Maurice of Nassau]] defeat [[Spain|Spanish]] forces under [[Archduke Albert of Austria (1559-1621)|Archduke Albert of Austria]] in a battle on the coastal dunes.
* [[July 10]] - [[Tycho Brahe|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]]).
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* [[October]] - [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]], shows the first signs of his growing mental instability.
* [[October 6]] - [[Jacopo Peri]]'s ''[[Euridice (opera)|Euridice]]'', the earliest surviving [[opera]], is premiered in [[Florence]].
* [[October 8]] - [[San Marino]] gains its written constitution.
* [[October 21]] - [[Battle of Sekigahara]] in [[Japan]]: [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] defeats [[Ishida Mitsunari]], setting the stage for the rule of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. This ends the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]] and begins the [[Edo period]].
* [[December 14]] - The [[Spain|Spanish]] [[galleon]] ''[[San Diego (ship)|San Diego]]'' is sunk off the [[Philippines]].
* [[December 31]] - A [[Royal charter]] incorporates the [[British East India Company]] in [[London]].
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===Undated===
* [[Sumo|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]].
*[[Konoike Shinroku]] establishes a sake brewery in [[Konoike]].
==Births==
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* [[January 1]] - [[Friedrich Spanheim]], Dutch theologian (d. [[1649]])
* [[January 17]] - [[Pedro Calderón de la Barca]], Spanish playwright (d. [[1681]])
* [[January 28]] - [[Pope Clement IX]] (d. [[1669]])
* [[February]] - [[Edmund Calamy the Elder]], English presbyterian (d. [[1666]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Gabriel Naudé]], French librarian and scholar (d. [[1653]])
* [[March 3]] - [[George Ghica]], Prince of [[Wallachia]] (d. [[1664]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Empress Xiao Duan Wen]] of the Qing Dynasty (d. [[1649]])
* [[August 16]] - [[Maria Celeste]], nun, daughter of [[Galileo Galilei]]
* [[November]] - [[John Lennon]], English writer and cartographer (d. [[1676]])
* [[November 19]]
**[[Leo Aitzema]], Dutch historian and statesman (d. [[1669]])
**King [[Charles I of England]], Scotland, and Ireland (ex. [[1649]])
*''date unknown''
**[[Marin le Roy de Gomberville]], French poet and novelist (d. [[1674]])
**[[Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet]], English Royalist leader (d. [[1658]])
**[[Peter Heylin]], English ecclesiastical writer (d. [[1662]])
**[[Antoine de Laloubère]], French Jesuit mathematician (d. [[1664]])
**[[Anna Alojza Ostrogska]], Polish noblewoman (d. [[1654]])
**[[William Prynne]], English puritan politician (d. [[1669]])
**[[Brian Walton (bishop)|Brian Walton]], English divine and scholar (d. [[1661]])
*''probable''
** [[Jonas Bronck]], Swedish colonist in America (d. [[1643]])
** [[Piaras Feiritéar]], Irish language poet (d. [[1653]])
** [[Samuel Rutherford]], Scottish theologian and controversialist (d. [[1660]])
: ''See also [[:Category:1600 births]].''
==Deaths==
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* [[February 13]] - [[Gian Paolo Lomazzo]], Italian painter (b. [[1538]])
* [[February 17]] - [[Giordano Bruno]], Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. [[1548]])
* [[April]] - [[Thomas Deloney]], English writer (b. [[1543]])
* [[July 17]] - [[Hosokawa Gracia]], Japanese noblewoman (b. [[1563]])
* [[August 5]] - [[John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie]], Scottish conspirator (b. [[1577]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Mizuno Tadashige]], Japanese nobleman (b. [[1541]])
* [[September 1]] - [[Tadeáš Hájek]], Czech physician and astronomer (b. [[1525]])
* [[September 26]] - [[Claude Le Jeune]], French composer (b. [[1530]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Luis Molina]], Spanish Jesuit (b. [[1535]])
* [[October 21]] - [[Toda Katsushige]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1557]])
* [[November 3]] - [[Richard Hooker (theologian)|Richard Hooker]], Anglican theologian (b. [[1554]])
* [[November 6]] - [[Ishida Mitsunari]], Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (b. [[1560]])
* [[November 6]] - [[Konishi Yukinaga]], Japanese Christian warlord (b. [[1555]])
* [[November 8]] - [[Natsuka Masaie]], Japanese warlord (b. [[1562]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Kuki Yoshitaka]], Japanese naval commander (b. [[1542]])
*''date unknown''
**[[José de Acosta]], Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. [[1540]])
**[[Abe Masakatsu]], Japanese nobleman (b. [[1541]])
**Antonio Monserrate, Spanish Jesuit (b. [[1536]])
: ''See also [[:Category:1600 deaths]].''
==References==
*[[Jackson J. Spielvogel|Spielvogel]] -- ''Western Civilization -- Volume II: Since 1500'' (5th Edition), p.401
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