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Events
February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed
February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded
Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China
Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer
Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Malaga
Year in topic
1601 in literature:
Mark Twain's 1601, subtitled "Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors", is a vulgar satire supposedly taken from Pepys' diaries.
Births
May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
August 20 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
September 27 - King Louis XIII of France
Deaths
Tycho Brahe - Danish astronomer
Scipione Ammirato - Italian historian
Category:1601
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