1600

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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July 2: Battle of Nieuwpoort.
1600 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1600
MDC
Ab urbe condita2353
Armenian calendar1049
ԹՎ ՌԽԹ
Assyrian calendar6350
Balinese saka calendar1521–1522
Bengali calendar1007
Berber calendar2550
English Regnal year42 Eliz. 1 – 43 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2144
Burmese calendar962
Byzantine calendar7108–7109
Chinese calendar己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4297 or 4090
    — to —
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4298 or 4091
Coptic calendar1316–1317
Discordian calendar2766
Ethiopian calendar1592–1593
Hebrew calendar5360–5361
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1656–1657
 - Shaka Samvat1521–1522
 - Kali Yuga4700–4701
Holocene calendar11600
Igbo calendar600–601
Iranian calendar978–979
Islamic calendar1008–1009
Japanese calendarKeichō 5
(慶長5年)
Javanese calendar1520–1521
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3933
Minguo calendar312 before ROC
民前312年
Nanakshahi calendar132
Thai solar calendar2142–2143
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1726 or 1345 or 573
    — to —
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1727 or 1346 or 574

1600 (MDC) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday 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. As of the start of 1600, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In the Gregorian calendar, it was the last century leap year until the year 2000.

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

  • July 2Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) – Battle of Nieuwpoort: The Dutch Republic gains a tactical victory over the Spanish Empire.[6]
  • 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.
  • September 18 – The Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.
  • September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan.[7] The Liefde, a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.

October–December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

Births[edit]

John Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Charles I of England

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

Eleonore Marie of Anhalt-Bernburg

October–December[edit]

Date unknown[edit]

Probable[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Sebastian de Aparicio
Shima Sakon
Richard Hooker
Margrave Andrew of Burgau

January–March[edit]

April–June[edit]

July–September[edit]

October–December[edit]

Full date missing[edit]

References[edit]

  • Spielvogel, Jackson J. Western Civilization. Volume II: Since 1500 (5th ed.). p. 401.
  1. ^ Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen Connellan, ed. by Michael O'Clery (Irish Genealogical Foundation, 2003) p. 666
  2. ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 238–243. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. ^ Falkland Islands: Report for 1924 (His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926) p. 3
  4. ^ Hilary Gatti (2002). Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance. Ashgate. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7546-0562-1.
  5. ^ ""Nicholas Fuller and the Liberties of the Subject", by Stephen Wright, Journal of Parliamentary History (2006) p.180
  6. ^ "Historical Events for Year 1600 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  7. ^ "Hoop". Archeosousmarine. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  8. ^ John Glenn Paton (1994). Italian Arias of the Baroque and Classical Eras: High. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-7390-2191-0.
  9. ^ a b ("Dispatch of 23rd October, 1600: On the 20th the two ambassadors from Persia made their entry here; one is an Englishman called, as I understand, he is the principal Ambassador, and the other is a Persian called Assan Halevech; there are about twenty or twenty-five persons with them...") contemporary account, quoted in Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure, ed by Edward D. Ross (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005) p. 23-24
  10. ^ ("Dispatch of November 8th, 1600: "Yesterday these Ambassadors from the King of Persia had had an audience. The Englishman spoke in Spanish, and the substance of that King's offer to His Imperial Majesty was that he would arm against the Turk...")
  11. ^ "Dionysios the Philosopher, Metropolitan of Larissa", by Georgios Ploumidis, in Ta Nea (Athens), August 17, 2000, archived by Archive.org
  12. ^ Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1986). Love is No Laughing Matter. Oxford University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-85668-365-7.
  13. ^ The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Baker Book House. 1977. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-8010-7947-4.
  14. ^ "Grenville, Sir Richard (1600–1659), of Fitzford, nr. Tavistock, Devon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  15. ^ David Mathew (1955). Scotland Under Charles I. Eyre & Spottiswoode. p. 26. ISBN 978-7-470-00028-0.
  16. ^ Hans Blumenberg (1985). The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. MIT Press. p. 549. ISBN 978-0-262-52105-5.
  17. ^ Virginia Brown; James Hankins; Robert A. Kaster (May 2003). Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries : Annotated Lists and Guides. CUA Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-8132-1300-2.
  18. ^ William Oxenham Hewlett (1882). Notes on Dignities in the Peerage of Scotland which are Dormant Or which Have Been Forfeited. Wildy and Sons. p. 135.
  19. ^ Alexander Chalmers (1816). The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons. J. Nichols. p. 292.
  20. ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography: Kilpatrick-Louis. Gale Research. 1998. p. 314. ISBN 978-0-7876-2549-8.
  21. ^ Diego Alonso-Lasheras SJ (11 April 2011). Luis de Molina's De Iustitia et Iure: Justice as Virtue in an Economic Context. BRILL. p. 14. ISBN 978-90-04-20966-4.