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

This article is about the year 1600. For the number (and other uses), see 1600 (number).

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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.
May 6 – Prince Sigismund Báthory of Transylvania loses the city of Suceava to the Voivode Michael the Brave of Wallachia, during the internecine conflict in Hungary and the Danubian Principalities. For the first time, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia became one country (known today as Romania). However, the union ends one year later when Michael the Brave is killed.

July 2 – Battle of Nieuwpoort in the Eighty Years' War (Dutch War of Independence) between the Dutch and the Spanish
October 17 – Battle of Sekigahara in Japan, granting Tokugawa Ieyasu nominal control over the whole country.
December 31 – East India Company granted a Royal Charter in England.

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.

January 1 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
January 28 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
February – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English presbyterian (d. 1666)
February 2 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
March 3 – George Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (d. 1664)
May 13 – Empress Xiaoduanwen of the Qing Dynasty (d. 1649)
August 16 – Maria Celeste, nun, daughter of Galileo Galilei
November – John Ogilby, English writer and cartographer (d. 1676)
November 19
- Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
- King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (ex. 1649)
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)
- 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 Rutherford, Scottish theologian and controversialist (d. 1660)

February 13 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
February 17 – Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
April – Thomas Deloney, English writer (b. 1543)
May 19 – Abe Masakatsu, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
July 17 – Hosokawa Gracia, Japanese noblewoman (b. 1563)
August 5 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator (b. 1577)
August 27 – Mizuno Tadashige, Japanese nobleman (b. 1541)
September 1 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (b. 1525)
September 26 – Claude Le Jeune, French composer (b. 1530)
October 12 – Luis de Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)
October 21 – Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
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 17 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
date unknown
- José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540)
- Antonio Monserrate, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1536)

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

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