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For the Marvel comic, see 1602 (comic).
Events
February 14 - William Shakespeare First performance of Twelfth Night on Candlemas
March 20 - The Dutch East India Company is established as The United East India Company by the Dutch States-General
May 15 - Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod.
June - James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (now Aceh), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler. Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese Galleon and loots it.
Ben Jonson writes Poetaster
William Shakespeare writes The Merry Wives of Windsor
Persia declares war on Ottoman Empire
Bodleian Library founded
In Praque, Florian Mathias performs the first successful bowel surgery – removes a dagger from stomach
Jesuit missionary Jeronimo de Angeluin arrives in Japan
A private trading company is established in Copenhagen, with the monopoly on the trade with Iceland.
Births
February 18 - Per Brahe - Swedish soldier and statesman
April 30 - William Lilly - English astrologer
October 12 - William Chillingworth - English churchman
November 20 - Otto von Guericke - inventor of the vacuum pump; and mayor of Magdeburg
December 7 - Philippe Delano, Pilgrim founder of the American House of Delano (d. 1681)
Deaths
October 30 - Jean-Jacques Boissard
December 1 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord
Jean Pithou - French lawyer and author
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