1604
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January 14 –
Hampton Court conference with
James I of England, the
Anglican bishops and representatives of
Puritans.
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May 19 - The town of
Montreal is founded.
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September 20 – Capture of
Ostend by
Spanish forces under
Ambrosio Spinola after a three year siege.
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October 9 –
Supernova 1604 is observed. As of this writing, this was the last
supernova to be observed in the
Milky Way.
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November 1 – At
Whitehall Palace in
London, the
William Shakespeare tragedy
Othello is presented for the first time.
* The
Sikh Holy Scripture Guru Granth Sahib is compiled and edited by
Guru Arjan .
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Luis Vaez de Torres is the first
European to sail through the
Torres Strait.
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France begins settling
Acadia, first successful
French North American
colony.
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France begins settling
French Guiana.
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England concludes the
Treaty of London with
Spain, ending its involvement in the
Eighty Years' War.
*
Peter Blundell founds
Blundell's School in
Tiverton,
England.
*
Za Dengel deposed as
Emperor of
Ethiopia by
Za Sellase, who restores his cousin
Yaqob.
* The first known
English Dictionary to be organized by
alphabetical ordering was
published.
* Before 1st October
Huntingdon Beaumont had completed the
Wollaton Wagonway built to transport
coal from the mines at
Strelley to
Wollaton just west of
Nottingham,
England. This is currently the world's oldest
wagonway with provenance. Exact date unknown but a surviving account book for the year ended 30 September 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.
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April 5 -
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died
1675)
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May 10 -
Jean Mairet, French dramatist (died
1686)
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August 3 -
John Eliot, English puritan missionary (died
1690)
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August 4 -
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French author (died
1676)
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September 13 -
William Brereton, English soldier and politician (died
1661)
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November 3 -
Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died
1622)
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Priscilla Alden, member of Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony (died
1680)
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Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine (died
1664)
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Jakob Balde, German Latinist (died
1668)
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Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (died
1676)
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Nils Brahe, Swedish soldier (died
1632)
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Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (died
1670)
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Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (died
1651)
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi (died
1657)
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Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (died
1665)
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Claude Lorrain, French painter (died
1682)
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Jasper Mayne, English dramatist (died
1672)
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Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter (died
1655)
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John Maurice of Nassau, count of Nassau-Siegen (died
1679)
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Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar (died
1691)
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Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, general in the Thirty Years' War (died
1639)
See also :Category:1604 births.*
February 29 -
John Whitgift,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1530)
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March 4 -
Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (born
1539)
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March 13 -
Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b.
1537)
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May 5 -
Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (born
1533)
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June 24 -
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (born
1550)
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August 3 -
Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
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August 8 -
Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (born
1578)
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September 10 -
William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (born
1545)
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October 18 -
Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (born
1528)
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November 3 -
Osman II,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1622)
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Abul-Fazel, Mughal vizier and historian
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Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (born
1562)
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Catherine de Bourbon, sister of
Henry IV of France (born
1559)
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Thomas Churchyard, English author (born
1520)
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Za Dengel,
Emperor of Ethiopia*
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (born
1540)
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Toda Kazuaki, Japanese samurai (born
1542)
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Roger Marbeck, English physician (born
1536)
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Seosan, Korean monk (born
1520)
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Thomas Storer, English poet (born
1571)
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Richard Topcliffe, English torturer and sadist (born
1532)
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Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (born
1537)
See also :Category:1604 deaths.
