1600

See also 1600 (number), 1600s

Years: 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

*July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert of Austria in a battle on the coastal dunes.

*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.

*Sumo Wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.
*William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed.
*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

*January 1 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
* January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (died 1681)
* January 28 - Pope Clement IX (died 1669)
* February 2 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (died 1653)
*November 19 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
* November 19 - King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1649)
* Jonas Bronck, Swedish colonist in America (died 1643)
* Edmund Calamy the Elder, English presbyterian (died 1666)
* Piaras Feiritéar, Irish language poet (died 1653)
* Gheorghe Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (died 1664)
* Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist (died 1674)
* Samuel Gorton, English sectary (died 1677)
* Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, English Royalist leader (died 1658)
* Peter Heylin, English ecclesiastical writer (died 1662)
* Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (died 1664)
* John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (died 1676)
* Anna Alojza Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (died 1654)
* William Prynne, English puritan politician (died 1669)
* Samuel Rutherford,Scottish theologian and controversialist (died 1660)
* Brian Walton, English divine and scholar (died 1661)
* Tokugawa Yoshinao, Japanese nobleman (died 1650)

See also :Category:1600 births.

*February 13 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
* February 17 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (born 1548)
* July 17 - Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (born 1563)
* September 1 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (born 1525)
* September 26 - Claude Le Jeune, French composer (born 1530)
*October 12 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
* October 21 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (born 1557)
* November 3 - Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (born 1554)
* November 6 - Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (born 1560)
* November 6 - Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian warlord (born 1555)
* November 8 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (born 1562)
* November 17 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (born 1542)
* Jose de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born 1540)
* Thomas Deloney, English writer (born 1543)
* Abe Masakatsu, Japanese nobleman (born 1541)
* Thomas Nashe, English pamphleteer (born 1567)
* Nicholas Remy, French Catholic priest (born 1534)
* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (born 1577)
* Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (born 1541)
* Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1537)

See also :Category:1600 deaths.

*Spielvogel Volume II: Since 1500]]'' (5th Edition), p.401