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Contents
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2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
February 8
-
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
, rebels against
Elizabeth I of England
- revolt is quickly crushed
February 25
-
Robert Devereux
beheaded
Jesuit
Matteo Ricci
arrives in China
Bad harvest in
Russia
due to rainy summer
Dutch troops drive Portuguese from
Malaga
Battle of Kinsale
,
Ireland
Year in topic
1601 in literature
:
Mark Twain
's
1601
, subtitled "Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside , in the Time of the Tudors", is a vulgar
satire
supposedly taken from
Pepys
' diaries.
Births
May 2
-
Athanasius Kircher
, German Jesuit scholar
August 20
-
Pierre de Fermat
, French mathematician
September 27
- King
Louis XIII of France
(d.
1643
)
Deaths
Tycho Brahe
- Danish astronomer
Scipione Ammirato
- Italian historian
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Last updated: 10-10-2005 01:34:23
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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