1604

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Year 1604 (MDCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 14 – The Hampton Court conference is held between James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of the Puritans. Work begins on the Authorized King James Version of the Bible^[1] and revision of the Book of Common Prayer.
• August 18 – England concludes the Treaty of London with Spain, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604), an intermittent conflict within the Eighty Years' War.

July–December

• September 20 – Ostend is captured by Spanish forces under Ambrogio Spinola after a 3-year siege.
• October 4 – Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia, is killed in battle with the forces of Za Sellase, who restores his cousin Yaqob to the throne.
• October 9 – The supernova which becomes known as Kepler's Supernova (SN 1604) is first observed from northern Italy. From October 17, Johannes Kepler begins a year's observation of it from Prague. There won't be another "naked-eye" supernova to be seen until 1987. As of 2006, this is the last supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.^[2][3]
• November 1 – First recorded performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, at Whitehall Palace in London.

Date unknown

• The Sikh Holy Scripture Guru Granth Sahib is compiled and edited by Guru Arjan.
• France begins settling Acadia, first successful French North American colony.
• Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Waggonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England, the world's oldest wagonway with provenance.^[4]
• The Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, is published.
• First publication of Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, in London.
• Lancelot de Casteau's L'Ouverture de cuisine published in Liège, including the first printed recipe for choux pastry.

Religion

• According the legend the vault of Christian Rosenkreutz is discovered.
• The Papacy is expected to fall this year by Tobias Hess and Simon Studion according to their correspondence in 1597.

Births

• January 4 – Jakob Balde, German Latinist (d. 1668)
• March 10 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (approximate date; d. 1670)
• April 5 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
• May 10 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (d. 1686)
• June 17 – John Maurice of Nassau, count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1679)
• August 3 – John Eliot, English puritan missionary (d. 1690)
• August 4 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French author (d. 1676)
• August 12 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
• August 16 – Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, general in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1639)
• September 13 – William Brereton, English soldier and politician (d. 1661)
• October 14 – Nils Brahe, Swedish soldier (d. 1632)
• November – Jasper Mayne, English dramatist (d. 1672)
• November 3 – Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1622)
• date unknown
  • Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine (d. 1664)
  • Menasseh Ben Israel, Jewish Rabbi (d. 1657)
  • Giovanni Battista Michelini, Italian painter (d. 1655)
  • Edward Pococke, English Orientalist and biblical scholar (d. 1691)
• probable
  • Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist (d. 1676)
  • Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, Dutch admiral (d. 1665)

Deaths

• February 29 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1530)
• March 4 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
• March 13 – Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
• May 5 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
• June 24 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England, poet and possibly playwright (b. 1550)
• August 3 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander
• August 8 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
• September 10 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator (b. 1545)
• October 4 – Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
• October 18 – Igram van Achelen, Dutch statesman (b. 1528)
• December 3 – George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1540)
• December 22 – Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (b. 1546)
• date unknown
  • Isabella Andreini, Italian actress (b. 1562)
  • Thomas Churchyard, English author, secretary to Edward de Vere (b. 1520)
  • Toda Kazuaki, Japanese samurai (b. 1542)
  • Thomas Storer, English poet (b. 1571)
  • Richard Topcliffe, English torturer and sadist (b. 1531)
• probable
  • Abul-Fazel, Mughal vizier and historian
  • Seosan Daesa, Korean monk (b. 1520)

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