Information about 1601
This article is about the year 1601. For other uses, see 1601 (number).
| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |
| Years: | 1598 1599 1600 - 1601 - 1602 1603 1604 |
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- For the Mark Twain work, see 1601 (Mark Twain).
Year 1601 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday (Julian-1601) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1601
January - June
- January 1 - The first day of the seventeenth century.
- February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, longtime favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, rebels against the queen; his revolt is quickly crushed.
- February 25 - Robert Devereux is beheaded.
July - December
- 24 December (Julian Calendar) - The Battle of Kinsale ends the siege of Kinsale, Ireland, a siege that started in the autumn of 1601. According to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, its date was 3 January 1602.
Undated
- Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China.
- Bad harvest occurs in Russia due to rainy summer.
- Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Málaga.
- A famine (-1603) kills about half the Estonian population.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1601 MDCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2354 |
| Armenian calendar | 1050 ԹՎ ՌԾ |
| Bah' calendar | -243 – -242 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2145 |
| Chinese calendar | 4237/4297-7-24 (庚子年七月廿四日) — to — 4238/4298-7-5(辛丑年七月初五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1317 – 1318 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1593 – 1594 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5361 – 5362 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1656 – 1657 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1523 – 1524 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4702 – 4703 |
| Holocene calendar | 11601 |
| Iranian calendar | 979 – 980 |
| Islamic calendar | 1009 – 1011 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 0 (慶長0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2261 (皇紀2261年) |
| Julian calendar | 1646 |
| Korean calendar | 3934 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2144 |
- January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (died 1658)
- May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
- May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (died 1680)
- August 17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
- September 13 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)
- September 22 - Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (died 1666)
- September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (died 1643)
- date unknown
- William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (died 1678)
- Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (died 1681)
- probable
- Adrian Scrope, English regicide (died 1660)
- François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (died 1655)
- Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
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Deaths
- January 19 - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (born 1534)
- February 25 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (born 1566)
- February 27 - Anne Line, English saint (birthdate unknown)
- April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (born 1562)
- May 19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (born 1528)
- August 9 - Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (born 1558)
- October 24 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1546)
- date unknown
- Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1531)
- Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
- Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (born 1549)
- probable
- Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
- John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
- See also .
Notes
January 1, 1601, is used as the base of file dates[1] by Microsoft Windows.References
1000 (one thousand) is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. The letter A does not appear in the English spelling of any number lower than "one thousand".
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- Ethiopia - Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (1597-1603 and 1604-1606)
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- China (Ming Dynasty) - Wanli, Emperor of China (1573-1620)
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1600 colonial governors - Events of 1601 - 1602 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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- Angola - João Furtado de Mendonça, Governor of Angola (1594-1602)
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[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. or simply 1601 is the title of a humorous risque work by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.
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