1606

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 16th century
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
Decades:
Years:
  • 1603
  • 1604
  • 1605
  • 1606
  • 1607
  • 1608
  • 1609
1606 by topic
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1606 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1606
MDCVI
Ab urbe condita2359
Armenian calendar1055
ԹՎ ՌԾԵ
Assyrian calendar6356
Balinese saka calendar1527–1528
Bengali calendar1013
Berber calendar2556
English Regnal year3 Ja. 1 – 4 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2150
Burmese calendar968
Byzantine calendar7114–7115
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4302 or 4242
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4303 or 4243
Coptic calendar1322–1323
Discordian calendar2772
Ethiopian calendar1598–1599
Hebrew calendar5366–5367
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1662–1663
 - Shaka Samvat1527–1528
 - Kali Yuga4706–4707
Holocene calendar11606
Igbo calendar606–607
Iranian calendar984–985
Islamic calendar1014–1015
Japanese calendarKeichō 11
(慶長１１年)
Javanese calendar1526–1527
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3939
Minguo calendar306 before ROC
民前306年
Nanakshahi calendar138
Thai solar calendar2148–2149
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1732 or 1351 or 579
    — to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1733 or 1352 or 580
August 16: Battle of Cape Rachado

1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1606th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 606th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1606, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January 29 – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the Pitcairn Islands.
  • January 24 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators, for plotting against Parliament and James I of England, begins.[1]
  • February 9 – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers Mehetia.
  • February 12 – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers Tauere atoll.
  • February 26 – Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
  • March – The Duke of York's ship Duyfken, under Captain Willem Janszoon, explores the western coast of Cape York Peninsula.[2]
  • March 19 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francesco, elevates Livorno to the rank of city.
  • April – Venetian Interdict: Pope Paul V places the Republic of Venice under an interdict.
  • April 10 – Charter of 1606: The First Charter of Virginia is adopted, by which King James I of England grants rights to the Virginia Company (comprising the London Company and Plymouth Company) to settle parts of the east coast of North America.
  • April 12 – The first version of the Union Flag is created,[3] to be worn as a national flag by English and Scottish ships.
  • May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.[4]
  • May 17 – Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin, and kill Tsar Dmitry I of Russia.
  • June or October – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: An improvised Spanish fleet under Luis Fajardo defeats the Dutch fleet under Willem Haultain.

July–December[]

  • August (approx.) – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth in London.[5][6]
  • August 16 – Battle of Cape Rachado: A Dutch fleet is defeated by the Portuguese.
  • October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.
  • October 2 – King Charles IX of Sweden founded the city of Vaasa to the Korsholm Parish in the Coastal Ostrobothnia.[7]
  • September 20 – The trial in the gravedigging scandal of Frankenstein begins.
  • November 11 – The Peace of Zsitvatorok is signed, between the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides, and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottomans is abolished.
  • December 19 – The Susan Constant sets out from the River Thames in England leading the Virginia Company's fleet for the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia.[8]

Date unknown[]

  • A storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.[9]
  • The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, and describes Latvian mythology.
  • The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum), a Lutheran high school is founded in Bratislava.
  • Gregor Richter succeeds Martin Möller as the chief pastor of Görlitz.
  • The cryptographic text Steganographia, written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499, is published in Frankfurt.

Births[]

Edmund Waller
John Bulwer
Wouter van Twiller
Julian Maunoir
Hermann Conring
Jeanne Mance

January–March[]

  • January 1 (bapt.) – Eva Ment, Dutch culture personality (d. 1652)
  • January 4 (bapt.) – Edmund Castell, English orientalist (d. 1685)
  • January 9 – William Dugard, English printer (d. 1662)
  • January 11 – Judit Rumy, Hungarian noble (d. 1663)
  • January 30 – Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever (d. 1674)
  • February 10 – Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1663)
  • February 12 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
  • February 16 – William White, English politician (d. 1661)
  • February 23
    • George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1674)
    • Richard Lloyd, English politician (d. 1676)
  • February 27 – Laurent de La Hyre, French Baroque painter (d. 1656)
  • c. February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (d. 1668)
  • March – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (d. 1680)
  • March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)
  • March 18 – John X of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck (1634–1655) (d. 1655)
  • March 20 – Georg von Derfflinger, field marshal in the army of Brandenburg-Prussia (1618–1648) (d. 1695)
  • March 25 – Gertrude More, English nun (d. 1633)
  • March 27 – Hans Svane, Danish statesman (d. 1668)
  • March 28 – Jacob Masen, German poet (d. 1681)
  • March 30 – Vincentio Reinieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1647)

April–June[]

  • April 1 – Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625–1640) (d. 1640)
  • April 5 – Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, Translator (d. 1664)
  • April 6 – Amable de Bourzeys, French writer and academic (d. 1672)
  • April 14 – Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt, Countess of East Frisia (d. 1659)
  • May 3
    • Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, wife of Thomas Francis (d. 1692)
    • Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet (d. 1665)
  • May 6 – John Norton, American divine (d. 1663)
  • May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German Baroque art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
  • May 14 – Agnes of Hesse-Kassel, Princess consort of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1650)
  • May 16 (bapt.) – John Bulwer, British doctor (d. 1656)
  • May 17 – Marco Faustini, Italian opera manager (d. 1676)
  • May 22 – Wouter van Twiller, Director-General of New Netherland from 1633 until 1638 (d. 1654)
  • May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
  • May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)[10]
  • June 3 – George Aribert of Anhalt-Dessau, German nobleman (d. 1643)
  • June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
  • June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish peer and soldier (d. 1675)
  • June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish politician and noble (d. 1649)

July–September[]

Rembrandt

October–December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (d. 1647)
  • Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1680)
  • Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (d. 1682)
  • John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, English politician (d. 1685)
  • Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (d. 1658)
  • Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1633)
  • Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (d. 1687)

Deaths[]

Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania
Turibius of Mogrovejo
Henry Garnet
Guru Arjan

References[]

  1. ^ Guy Eden (1949). The Parliament Book. Staples Press. p. 29.
  2. ^ McHugh, Evan (2006). 1606: An Epic Adventure. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-86840-866-8.
  3. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. ^ Richardson, William A. R. (2008). Was Australia Charted Before 1606: the Jave la Grande Inscriptions. Australia: Everbest. p. 20.
  5. ^ Scholars date completion as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.
  6. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  7. ^ HS: Kaarle IX perusti Vaasan 1606 (in Finnish)
  8. ^ Evelyn Wrench; Sir Evelyn Wrench (1949). Transatlantic London: Three Centuries of Association Between England and America. Hutchinson. p. 5.
  9. ^ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire (1917). An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire: County of Carmarthen. V. RCAHMW. p. 245.
  10. ^ The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs. Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs. 1902. p. 240.
  11. ^ Charles L. Mee Jr. (October 24, 2016). Rembrandt: A Life. New Word City. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-61230-700-8.
  12. ^ a b c Faith Nostbakken; William Shakespeare (1997). Understanding Macbeth: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-313-29630-7.
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