1606

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Years: 1603 1604 1605 - 1606 - 1607 1608 1609

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1606 by topic: Arts and Science Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science Lists of leaders Colonial governors - State leaders Birth and death categories Births - Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments - Disestablishments Works category Works 1606 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1606 MDCVI Ab urbe condita 2359 Armenian calendar 1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ Chinese calendar 4242/4302-11-23 (乙巳年十一月廿三日) — to — 4243/4303-12-3 (丙午年十二月初三日) Ethiopian calendar 1598 – 1599 Hebrew calendar 5366 – 5367 Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat 1661 – 1662 - Shaka Samvat 1528 – 1529 - Kali Yuga 4707 – 4708 Iranian calendar 984 – 985 Islamic calendar 1015 – 1016 Japanese calendar - Imperial Year Kōki 2266 (皇紀2266年) - Jōmon Era 11606 Thai solar calendar 2149

1606 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events 2 Unknown dates 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events

• January 27 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.
• January 31 - Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
• April 12 - The Union Jack is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
• May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri.
• December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed in court.

[edit] Unknown dates

• Storm buries a village of St Ishmail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain.
• The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
• First Union Flag created.
• The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, describes Latvian mythology.
• Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.

[edit] Births

• February 13 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
• March 3 - Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
• May 23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
• May 25 - Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
• June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French author (died 1684)
• June 16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
• June 19 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
• July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
• September 22 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
• November 12 - Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (died 1673)
• Richard Busby, English clergyman (died 1695)
• Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
• Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)
• William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
• Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
• Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
• Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
• Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
• John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
• Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
• Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
• Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1633)
• Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)

See also Category:1606 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 30 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
• January 30 - Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1565)
• January 31 - Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)
• January 31 - Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)
• January 31 - Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)
• March 23 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
• April 3 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
• May 3 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
• October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
• November 13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
• November 20 - (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553)
• François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
• False Dmitry I, pretender to the Russian throne
• Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
• Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
• Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman
• Jean Nicot, French diplomat and scholar (b. 1530)
• Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)
• Gaspar de Zuniga y Azevedo, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
• Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)

See also Category:1606 deaths.