1600

See also 1600 (number), 1600s

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

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

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)

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