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See also 1600 (number)
Events
January
January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Year's Day
February
February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned in a stake for heresy
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.
December
December 31 - Royal charter incorporates the British East India Company in London
Undated
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.
Ulster chieftains with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist English reconquest of Ireland
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).
November 6 - Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated by a blunt wooden saw).
References
Spielvogel -- (5th Edition), p.401
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