1602

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This article is about the year 1602. For other uses, see 1602 (disambiguation).
Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1602 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1602
MDCII
Ab urbe condita2355
Armenian calendar1051
ԹՎ ՌԾԱ
Assyrian calendar6352
Balinese saka calendar1523–1524
Bengali calendar1009
Berber calendar2552
English Regnal year44 Eliz. 1 – 45 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2146
Burmese calendar964
Byzantine calendar7110–7111
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4298 or 4238
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4299 or 4239
Coptic calendar1318–1319
Discordian calendar2768
Ethiopian calendar1594–1595
Hebrew calendar5362–5363
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1658–1659
 - Shaka Samvat1523–1524
 - Kali Yuga4702–4703
Holocene calendar11602
Igbo calendar602–603
Iranian calendar980–981
Islamic calendar1010–1011
Japanese calendarKeichō 7
(慶長７年)
Javanese calendar1522–1523
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3935
Minguo calendar310 before ROC
民前310年
Nanakshahi calendar134
Thai solar calendar2144–2145
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1728 or 1347 or 575
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
1729 or 1348 or 576
May 15: Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod

1602 (MDCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1602nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 602nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1602, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 December, 1601 according to the old Julian calendar used by the English.)
  • February 2 (Candlemas night) – First known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in London.[1]
  • March 20 – The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.
  • April 20 – The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly is established by the Danish Monarch, in light of recently implemented absolutism.
  • May 15 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing in the Concord, becomes the first European at Cape Cod.
  • June – James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (modern-day 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.

July–December[]

  • October 3–4 – Battle of the Narrow Seas: an English fleet, joined by the Dutch, pursues six Spanish galleys through the Strait of Dover.
  • November 8 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is opened.[2]
  • December 11 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva (this actually takes place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12, but commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend).

Ongoing[]

Date unknown[]

  • The Portuguese are expelled from Bahrain.
  • The Safavid Empire of Persia and the Spanish Empire conclude a defensive alliance and declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
  • A private trading company is established in Copenhagen with a monopoly on the trade with Iceland.
  • Ben Jonson's satirical comedy Poetaster is first performed, in London.
  • William Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
  • The play A Larum for London, or the Siedge of Antwerp is published in London.
  • Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.
  • The iconoclast and Confucian scholar Li Zhi commits suicide while in a Chinese prison, during the late Ming dynasty; he had taught that women were the intellectual equals of men and should be given equal opportunity in education; he was charged with spreading "dangerous ideas".
Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg born 29 January

Births[]

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda born 2 April
Gilles de Roberval born 10 August
William Morice (Secretary of State) born 6 November
Agnes of Jesus born 17 November

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

  • July 8 – François Perrochel, French cleric (d. 1682)
  • July 9 – Maeda Gen'i, Japanese Buddhist priest
  • July 14 – Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (d. 1661)[3]
  • July 15 – John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (d. 1659)
  • July 18 – Samuel Stone, Connecticut Puritan minister (d. 1663)
  • July 26 – Ana de los Angeles Monteagudo, Peruvian nun (d. 1686)
  • August 10 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
  • August 23 – Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1685)
  • August 31 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Princess consort to Frederick Henry (d. 1675)
  • September 1 – Peregrine Hoby, English politician (d. 1679)
  • September 17 – Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1678)
  • September 29 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (d. 1668)

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d. 1678)
  • Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (d. 1675)
  • John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (d. 1652)
  • Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (d. 1643)
  • Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English soldier (d. 1671)
  • Henry Marten, English lawyer, politician and regicide (d. 1680)
  • Theodorus Moretus, Flemish mathematician (d. 1667)
  • Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1676)
  • Dudley North, 4th Baron North, English politician (d. 1677)
  • Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1642)
  • Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, French courtier (d. 1635)
  • Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo, Italian educator (d. 1659)

Probable[]

Deaths[]

Ludvig Munk died 8 April
Anna of Mecklenburg died 4 July
Hedwig of Brandenburg died 21 October
David I of Kakheti died 21 October

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

References[]

  1. ^ Shakespeare, William (2001). Smith, Bruce R. (ed.). Twelfth Night: Texts and Contexts. Boston, Mass: Bedford/St Martin's. p. 2. ISBN 0-312-20219-9.
  2. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  3. ^ David J. Sturdy (September 24, 2003). Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-4039-4392-7.
  4. ^ David E. Newton (2003). Encyclopedia of Air. Greenwood Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-57356-564-6.
  5. ^ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  6. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boissard, Jean Jacques" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ...he died on the 30th of October 1602
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