This article is about the year 1606.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 16th century – 17th century – 18th century |
Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s |
Years: | 1603 1604 1605 – 1606 – 1607 1608 1609 |
1606 by topic: | |
Arts and Science | |
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science | |
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Colonial governors - State leaders | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1606 MDCVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2359 |
Armenian calendar | 1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6356 |
Bahá'í calendar | -238–-237 |
Bengali calendar | 1013 |
Berber calendar | 2556 |
English Regnal year | 3 Ja. 1 – 4 Ja. 1 |
Buddhist calendar | 2150 |
Burmese calendar | 968 |
Byzantine calendar | 7114–7115 |
Chinese calendar | 乙巳年十一月廿三日 (4242/4302-11-23) — to —
丙午年十二月初三日(4243/4303-12-3) |
Coptic calendar | 1322–1323 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1598–1599 |
Hebrew calendar | 5366–5367 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1662–1663 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1528–1529 |
- Kali Yuga | 4707–4708 |
Holocene calendar | 11606 |
Iranian calendar | 984–985 |
Islamic calendar | 1014–1015 |
Japanese calendar | Keichō 11 (慶長11年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
Korean calendar | 3939 |
Minguo calendar | 306 before ROC 民前306年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2149 |
Year 1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 27 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators for plotting against Parliament and James I of England begins.
- January 31 – Guy Fawkes is executed.
- February 26 – Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
- March 19 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francesco, elevates Livorno to the rank of city.
- April 10 – The First Charter of Virginia is adopted.
- April 12 – The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
- May 17 – Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dimitri II of Russia.
July–December
- August (approx.) – Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth in London.[1][2]
- August 14 – A Dutch fleet is defeated by the Portuguese in the Battle of Cape Rachado.
- November 11 – Peace of Zsitvatorok between the Ottoman and Holy Roman Empires. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottomans is abolished.
- December 26 (St. Stephen's night) – First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear, before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.[1]
Date unknown
- A storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
- The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, and describes Latvian mythology.
- The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum), a Lutheran high school is founded in Bratislava.
- The cryptographic text Steganographia, written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499, is published in Frankfurt.
- Gregor Richter has succeeded Martin Möller as the chief pastor of Görlitz.
Births
- February 13 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
- February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (d. 1668)
- March – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (d. 1680)
- March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)
- May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
- May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
- May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French author (d. 1684)
- June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
- June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
- July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
- September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
- September 27 – Richard Busby, English clergyman (d. 1695)
- November 12 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (d. 1673)
- date unknown
- Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (d. 1647)
- Edmund Castell, English orientalist (d. 1685)
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1680)
- Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. 1660)
- Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (d. 1682)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (d. 1685)
- Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (d. 1658)
- Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1633)
- Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (d. 1687)
Deaths
- January 30
- Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1565)
- January 31
- Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)
- Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)
- March 10 – Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
- March 16 – Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
- March 23
- Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
- Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
- March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
- April 3 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
- May 3 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
- May 17 – False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne
- May 30 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (executed) (b. 1563)
- September 2 – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
- September 9 – Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
- September 28 – Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)
- 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)
- date unknown – Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman