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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

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

• 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.
• December 31 - British East India Company is chartered

January

• January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Year's Day

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.

Births

• January 28 - Pope Clement IX
• 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 -- (5th Edition), p.401

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