1600

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1597 1598 1599 – 1600 – 1601 1602 1603

1600 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1600 MDC
Ab urbe condita	2353
Armenian calendar	1049 ԹՎ ՌԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6350
Bengali calendar	1007
Berber calendar	2550
English Regnal year	42 Eliz. 1 – 43 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2144
Burmese calendar	962
Byzantine calendar	7108–7109
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4296 or 4236     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4297 or 4237
Coptic calendar	1316–1317
Discordian calendar	2766
Ethiopian calendar	1592–1593
Hebrew calendar	5360–5361
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1656–1657
- Shaka Samvat	1522–1523
- Kali Yuga	4701–4702
Holocene calendar	11600
Igbo calendar	600–601
Iranian calendar	978–979
Islamic calendar	1008–1009
Japanese calendar	Keichō 5 (慶長５年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3933
Minguo calendar	312 before ROC 民前312年
Thai solar calendar	2142–2143

July 2: Battle of Nieuwpoort.

1600 (MDC) was a century leap year starting on Saturday (dominical letter BA) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter FE) of the Julian calendar, the 1600th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 600th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 16th century, and the 1st year of the 1600s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1600 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. It was the last century leap year until the year 2000.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day.
• January – Sebald de Weert makes the first definite sighting of the Falkland Islands.
• February 17 – Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy in Rome.
• February 19 – Huaynaputina volcano in Peru undergoes a catastrophic eruption, the worst to be recorded in South America.
• March 20 – Linköping Bloodbath: Public execution by decapitation of five Swedish nobles and de facto deposition of the Polish–Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa as ruler of Sweden.
• April 19 - First Dutch ship ever to arrive in Japan The ship, called "Liefde" ("Love"), anchored in Sashifu, in the Bungo area (nowadays Usuki in Oita Prefecture).

July–December

• July 2 – Battle of Nieuwpoort in the Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) between the Dutch and the Spanish.
• August 5 – The brothers Alexander Ruthven and John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, are killed during a failed attempt to kidnap or murder King James VI of Scotland at their home.
• October 21 – Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, granting Tokugawa Ieyasu nominal control over the whole country.
• December 31 – East India Company granted a Royal Charter in the Kingdom of England.

Date unknown

• Sumo wrestling becomes a professional sport in Japan.
• William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is first performed and his play The Merchant of Venice is published.
• 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.
• Ulster chieftains, with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist the English reconquest of Ireland.
• A Persian embassy arrives in Prague and meets with Rudolf II.
• Martin Möller is appointed chief pastor of Görlitz.
• The Lutheran orthodox campaign intensifies to reinforce the Book of Concord (approximate date).

John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar born 19 September

Charles I of England born 19 November

Denis of the Nativity born 12 December

Births

January–March

• January 1 – Friedrich Spanheim, Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden (d. 1649)
• January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
• January 22 – Elisabet Juliana Banér, Swedish noble (d. 1640)
• January 23 – Alexander Keirincx, painter (d. 1652)
• January 28 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
• February – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English presbyterian (d. 1666)
• February 1 – Johan Evertsen, Dutch admiral (d. 1666)
• February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
• February 6 – Matthew Brend, English landowner (d. 1659)
• February 9 – Jean-Joseph Surin, French Jesuit writer (d. 1665)
• February 24 – Manuel António of Portugal, Dutch-Portuguese nobleman (d. 1666)
• February 26 – Matsudaira Norinaga, Daimyo (d. 1654)
• March 3
  • George Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1664)
  • Robert Roberthin, German poet (d. 1648)
• March 19 – Anders Bille, Danish general (d. 1657)
• March 26 – Matthew Marvin, Sr., Connecticut settler (d. 1678)

April–June

• April 11 – Jacques Buteux, French missionary (d. 1652)
• April 13 – Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Altenburg, Colonel in the Saxon army (d. 1632)
• April 22 – Alessandro dal Borro, Austrian Field Marshal (d. 1656)
• May 13 – Empress Xiaoduanwen, of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1649)
• May 25 – Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, Scottish noble (d. 1640)
• June 26 – Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (d. 1659)
• June 29 – Maria Maddalena de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1633)

July–September

• July 1 – George Gobat, French theologian (d. 1679)
• July 15 – Jan Cossiers, painter (d. 1671)
• July 20 – Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet, Sheriff of Shropshire (d. 1659)
• July 22
  • Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1657)
  • Michel de Marolles, French translator and churchman (d. 1681)
• August 7 – Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1657)
• August 16 – Maria Celeste, nun, daughter of Galileo Galilei
• August 24 – Antoine de Laloubère (d. 1664)
• August 29 – John Stawell, Politician (d. 1662)
• September 5 – Loreto Vittori, Italian singer and composer (d. 1670)
• September 19
  • Hermann Busenbaum, Jesuit theologian (d. 1668)
  • John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1628)
• September 29 – Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1645)
• September 30 – Francis Bacon, English politician and Ipswich MP (d. 1663)

October–December

• October 1 – Dirk Graswinckel, Dutch jurist (d. 1666)
• October 2 – Petronio Veroni, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boiano (1652–1653) (d. 1653)
• October 4 – Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Iralian Jesuit (d. 1681)
• November – John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (d. 1676)
• November 15 – Aniello Falcone, Italian Baroque painter (d. 1665)
• November 19
  • Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
  • Charles I of England (d. 1649)
• December 12 – Denis of the Nativity, French sailor and cartigrapher (d. 1638)
• December 14 – Anna Magdalene of Hanau, German countess (d. 1673)
• December 15 – Selius Marselis, Dutch/Norwegian tradesman (d. 1663)
• December 20 – Nicolas Sanson, French cartographer (d. 1667)

Date unknown

• • Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist (d. 1674)
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet, English Royalist leader (d. 1658)
  • Peter Heylin, English ecclesiastical writer (d. 1662)
  • Antoine de Laloubère, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1664)
  • Claude Lorrain, French painter, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era (d. 1682)
  • Anna Alojza Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1654)
  • William Prynne, English puritan politician (d. 1669)
  • Brian Walton, English divine and scholar (d. 1661)

Probable

• • Jonas Bronck, Swedish colonist in America (d. 1643)
  • Dud Dudley, first Englishman to smelt iron ore with coke (d. 1684)
  • Piaras Feiritéar, Irish language poet (d. 1653)
  • Samuel Hartlib, British scholar (d. 1662)
  • Samuel Rutherford, Scottish theologian and controversialist (d. 1660)

Deaths

Sebastian de Aparicio died 25 February

Sebastiano Montelupi died 18 August

Shima Sakon died 21 October

Richard Hooker died 3 November

Margrave Andrew of Burgau died 12 November

January–March

• January 9 – John Spencer, English landowner and politician (b. 1549)
• January 21 – Jerzy Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (szlachcic) from the Radziwiłł family (b. 1556)
• February 9 – John Frederick, Duke of Pomerania, Protestant Bishop of Cammin (1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b. 1542)
• February 13 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
• February 17 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
• February 18 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540)
• February 25 – Sebastian de Aparicio, Spanish colonial industrialist and saint in Mexico (b. 1502)
• February 29 – Caspar Hennenberger, German historian and cartographe (b. 1529)
• March 6 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (b. 1533)
• March 20 – Gustaf Banér, Swedish noble (b. 1547)
• April – Thomas Deloney, English writer (b. 1543)

April–June

• May 17 – Thomas Leighton, English politician (b. 1554)
• May 18
  • Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis (b. 1550)
  • Fulvio Orsini, Italian humanist, historian, and archaeologist (b. 1529)
• May 19 – Abe Masakatsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
• June 3 – Juan Grande Román, Spanish Roman Catholic (b. 1546)
• June 8 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (b. 1565)
• June 19 – Christopher Layer, English politician (b. 1531)

July–September

• July 5 – Jean Kincaid, Murderer (b. 1579)
• July 17 – Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (b. 1563)
• July 20 – William More, English courtier (b. 1520)
• July 27 – John Glanville, English politician (b. 1542)
• August 5
  • Alexander Ruthven, Scottish earl (b. 1580)
  • John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577)
  • Queen Uiin, Korean royal consort (b. 1555)
• August 18 – Sebastiano Montelupi, Italian businessman (b. 1516)
• August 22 – Nicasius de Sille, Dutch diplomat (b. 1543)
• August 27 – Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
• September 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
• September 25 – Antoine du Verdier, French politician (b. 1544)
• September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)

October–December

• October 12 – Luis de Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
• October 17 – Cornelis de Jode, cartographer, engraver, publisher (b. 1568)
• October 21
  • Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
  • Shima Sakon, Japanese samurai (b. 1540)
  • Shimazu Toyohisa, Samurai (b. 1570)
  • Ōtani Yoshitsugu, Japanese samurai (b. 1558)
• November 3 – Richard Hooker, Anglican theologian (b. 1554)
• November 6
  • Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (b. 1560)
  • Konishi Yukinaga, Japanese Christian warlord (b. 1555)
• November 8 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
• November 12 – Margrave Andrew of Burgau, German nobleman, Cardinal, Bishop of Constance and Brixen (b. 1558)
• November 15 – Sigmund Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn, bishop of Regensburg (b. 1542)
• November 17 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
• November 25 – Juan Téllez-Girón, 2nd Duke of Osuna, Spanish duke (b. 1559)
• December 3 – Roger North, 2nd Baron North, English politician (b. 1530)
• December 16 – Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1569–1600) (b. 1560)

References

• Jackson J. Spielvogel – Western Civilization – Volume II: Since 1500 (5th Edition), p. 401