1600


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Year 1600 was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * - adopts  as.


 * - is burned at the stake for  in.

July - December

 * - : Dutch forces under defeat  forces under  in a battle on the coastal dunes.
 * - observes a  from Benatký.  Shortly afterwards, he moves to.
 * July - Astronomer arrives in, where he works with the Moon orbital theory; he brings the rest of Tycho's astronomical instruments with him.  (All arrive by ).


 * -, shows the first signs of his growing mental instability.
 * - 's , the earliest surviving, is premiered in.
 * - gains its written constitution.
 * - in, in which  defeated , setting the stage for the rule of the . End of the  and beginning of the.
 * - The   is sunk off the.
 * - A incorporates the  in.

Undated

 * becomes a professional sport in.
 * 's ' is first performed and his play ' is published.
 * publishes , which describes the Earth's and is the beginning of modern.
 * 's Nobiltà de dame is published.
 * Battle of Suceava: Prince of  is defeated by the Voivode  of, as part of the internecine conflict in Hungary and the Danubian Principalities.  For the first time, , , and  became one country (the actual ). However, the union ends one year later when  is killed.
 * chieftains, with the lead of, resist the English reconquest of.

Births

 * -, Dutch theologian (d. )
 * -, Spanish playwright (died )
 * - (died )
 * February -, English presbyterian (died )
 * -, French librarian and scholar (died )
 * -, Prince of (died )
 * -, nun, daughter of
 * November, English writer and cartographer (died )
 * , Dutch historian and statesman (d. )
 * King, Scotland, and Ireland (died )
 * date unknown
 * , French poet and novelist (died )
 * , English Royalist leader (died )
 * , English ecclesiastical writer (died )
 * , French Jesuit mathematician (died )
 * , Polish noblewoman (died )
 * , English puritan politician (died )
 * , English divine and scholar (died )
 * probable
 * , Swedish colonist in America (died )
 * , Irish language poet (died )
 * , Scottish theologian and controversialist (died )
 * , Scottish theologian and controversialist (died )


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Deaths

 * -, Italian painter (b. )
 * -, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (born )
 * April -, English writer (born )
 * -, Japanese noblewoman (born )
 * -, Scottish conspirator (born )
 * -, Japanese nobleman (born )
 * -, Czech physician and astronomer (born )
 * -, French composer (born )
 * -, Spanish Jesuit (b. )
 * -, Japanese warlord (born )
 * -, Anglican theologian (born )
 * -, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated) (born )
 * -, Japanese Christian warlord (born )
 * -, Japanese warlord (born )
 * -, Japanese naval commander (born )
 * date unknown
 * , Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (born )
 * , Japanese nobleman (born )


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