1604

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1601 1602 1603 – 1604 – 1605 1606 1607

1604 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1604 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1604 MDCIV
Ab urbe condita	2357
Armenian calendar	1053 ԹՎ ՌԾԳ
Assyrian calendar	6354
Bengali calendar	1011
Berber calendar	2554
English Regnal year	1 Ja. 1 – 2 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2148
Burmese calendar	966
Byzantine calendar	7112–7113
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4300 or 4240     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4301 or 4241
Coptic calendar	1320–1321
Discordian calendar	2770
Ethiopian calendar	1596–1597
Hebrew calendar	5364–5365
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1660–1661
- Shaka Samvat	1526–1527
- Kali Yuga	4705–4706
Holocene calendar	11604
Igbo calendar	604–605
Iranian calendar	982–983
Islamic calendar	1012–1013
Japanese calendar	Keichō 9 (慶長９年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3937
Minguo calendar	308 before ROC 民前308年
Thai solar calendar	2146–2147

1604 (MDCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG) of the Julian calendar, the 1604th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 604th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1600s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1604 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.

Events

January–June

• January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible^[1] and revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
• June – Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18): Shāh Abbas I of Persia's Safavid army captures the city of Yerevan from the Ottoman Empire after a siege. At this time the Shāh begins the expulsion of Armenians from Jolfa to New Julfa in his capital of Isfahan; more than 25,000 die during the exodus.
• August 18 – England concludes the Treaty of London with Spain, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), an intermittent conflict within the Eighty Years' War.

July–December

• September 1 – Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the religious text of Sikhism, is installed at Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar.
• September 20 – Ostend is captured by Spanish forces under Ambrogio Spinola after a 3-year siege.
• October 4 – Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia, is killed in battle with the forces of Za Sellase, who restores his cousin Yaqob to the throne.
• October 9 – The supernova which becomes known as Kepler's Supernova (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From October 17, Johannes Kepler begins a year's observation of it from Prague. There won't be another "naked-eye" supernova to be seen until 1987. As of 2006, this is the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.^[2][3]
• November 1 – First recorded performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, at the Palace of Whitehall in London.
• December 26 (St. Stephen's night) – First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.^[4]

Date unknown

• The Sikh holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib is compiled and edited by Guru Arjan.
• France begins settling Acadia, first successful French North American colony.
• Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Wagonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England, the world's oldest wagonway with provenance.^[5]
• The Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, is published.
• First publication of Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, in London.
• Lancelot de Casteau's L'Ouverture de cuisine published in Liège, including the first printed recipe for choux pastry.

Religion

• According to legend, the vault of Christian Rosenkreuz is discovered.
• The Papacy is expected to fall this year by Tobias Hess and Simon Studion according to their correspondence in 1597.

Johann Rudolf Glauber born 10 March

Claudia de' Medici born 4 June

Krisztina Nyáry born 31 October

Bernard of Offida born 7 November

Births

January–March

• January 4 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist (d. 1668)
• February 2 – Juan de Leyva de la Cerda, conde de Baños, Spanish noble (d. 1678)
• February 24 – Arcangela Tarabotti, born Elena Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (d. 1652)
• March 10 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (approximate date; d. 1670)
• March 23 – Girolamo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (d. 1666)

April–June

• April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
• April 9 – Duke Francis Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1658)
• April 17
  • Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli, Italian painter (d. 1656)
  • Frans Luycx, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1668)
• April 22 – Peter Venables, English politician (d. 1669)
• April 28 – Joris Jansen Rapelje, Early Dutch settler in colonial North America (d. 1662)
• May 1 – Louis, Count of Soissons (d. 1641)
• May 4 – Sir Hugh Owen, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1670)
• May 10 – Jean Mairet, classical French dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies (d. 1686)
• May 17 – Vincent Baron, French Dominican theologian writer (d. 1674)
• May 28 – Catherine of Brandenburg, Princess of Transylvania (1629–1630) (d. 1649)
• June 4 – Claudia de' Medici (d. 1648)
• June 10 – John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, English politician when he inherited the peerage (d. 1679)
• June 17 – John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679)
• June 28 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
• June 30 – Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg, Regent of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1667)

July–September

• July 8 – Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch painter (d. 1667)
• July 25 – Dorothea Diana of Salm, German noblewoman (d. 1672)
• August 3 – John Eliot, English puritan missionary (d. 1690)
• August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French author (d. 1676)
• August 12 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
• August 16 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, general in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1639)
• August 25 – Shang Kexi, Chinese general (d. 1676)
• September 13 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
• September 21 – Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter (d. 1687)

October–December

• October 14 – Nils Brahe, Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe (d. 1632)
• October 22 – Simon Le Moyne, French missionary (d. 1665)
• October 31
  • Luigi Baccio del Bianco, Italian painter (d. 1657)
  • Krisztina Nyáry, Hungarian noblewoman (d. 1641)
• November 3 – Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1622)
• November 6 – George Ent, English scientist (d. 1689)
• November 7
  • Bernard of Offida, Italian saint (d. 1694)
  • Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, Politician (d. 1689)
• November 26 – Johannes Bach, German composer and musician (d. 1673)
• December 7 – Ambrose Corbie, English Jesuit teacher (d. 1649)
• December 10 – David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, Irish noble (d. 1642)
• date unknown
  • Jasper Mayne, English dramatist (d. 1672)
  • Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine (d. 1664)
  • Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi (d. 1657)
  • Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter (d. 1655)
  • Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar (d. 1691)
• probable
  • Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)
  • Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (d. 1665)

Deaths

Catherine de Bourbon died 13 February

John Whitgift died 29 February

Gaspar de Bono died 14 July

Hamida Banu Begum died 29 August

Ercole, Lord of Monaco died 29 November

January–March

• January 4 – Ferenc Nádasdy, Hungarian noble (b. 1555)
• January 10 – Juliana of Lazarevo, Russian saint (b. 1530)
• January 17 – Santino Garsi da Parma, Italian musician (b. 1542)
• January 18 – Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Burggräfin of Meissen (b. 1538)
• January 23 – Hyujeong, Korean Seon master (b. 1520)
• February 9 – Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick, wife of Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (b. 1548)
• February 10 – Cyriacus Spangenberg, German theologian and historian (b. 1528)
• February 13 – Catherine de Bourbon, French princess (b. 1559)
• February 24 – Christoph Pezel, German theologian (b. 1539)
• February 29 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death (b. c. 1530)
• March 4 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
• March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)

April–June

• April 1 – Thomas Churchyard, English author, secretary to Edward de Vere (b. 1520)
• April 8 – Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Timurid Dynasty, Viceroy of Deccan (b. 1572)
• April 14 – Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1584–1604) (b. 1560)
• April 21 – Koide Hidemasa, Samurai (b. 1539)
• April 25 – Pietro de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1554)
• May 5 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
• May 13 – Christine of Hesse (b. 1543)
• May 26 – Godfrey Goldsborough, English bishop (b. 1548)
• June 5 – Thomas Muffet, English naturalist and physician (b. 1553)
• June 10 – Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (b. 1562)
• June 21 – Jonathan Trelawny, English politician (b. 1568)
• June 24 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, poet and possibly playwright (b. 1550)

July–September

• July 14 – Gaspar de Bono, Beatified Spanish Army veteran and Minim friar (b. 1530)
• August 3 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• August 8 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
• August 12 – John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (b. 1550)
• August 20 – Toda Kazuaki, Japanese samurai (b. 1542)
• August 29
  • Hamida Banu Begum (b. 1527)
  • Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Counts Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1556)
• August 30 – John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
• September 10 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
• September 12 – Louis Gunther of Nassau, Count of Nassau-Katzenelnbogen (b. 1575)
• September 17 – Lucas Osiander the Elder, German pastor (b. 1534)
• September 22 – Dorothy Stafford, English noble (b. 1526)
• September 23 – Gabriel Vásquez, Spanish theologian (b. 1549)

October–December

• October 4 – Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
• October 9
  • Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg, German noble (b. 1537)
  • William Peryam, British judge (b. 1534)
• October 18 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
• October 22 – Domingo Báñez, Spanish theologian (b. 1528)
• October 25 – Claude de La Trémoille, French noble (b. 1566)
• November – Thomas Storer, English poet (b. 1571)
• November 21 – John Thynne, English landowner and politician (b. 1555)
• November 23 – Olbracht Łaski, Polish alchemist (b. 1527)
• November 29 – Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Monegasque noble (b. 1562)
• December 3 – George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, English nobleman (b. 1540)
• December 22 – Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (b. 1546)
• date unknown
• Early? – Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (b. 1535)
• Late – Richard Topcliffe, English politician and torturer (b. 1531)

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. "SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova". Archived from the original on 24 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
3. "Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant". NASA. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
4. Scholars date completion as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.
5. The exact date is unknown, but a surviving account book for the year ended September 30 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.