1600

See also 1600 (number), 1600s

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

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1 Events

Events

July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert 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 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 17 - Giordano Bruno, religious reformer (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
November 6 - Ishida Mitsunari, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated by a blunt wooden saw) (b. 1560)

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