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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).

Contents

Events of 1601

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Notes

References

Events of 1601

January - June

★ 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 thate started in the autumn of 1601. and ended in the which happened on 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

★ 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)
: ''See also .''

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

1. Microsoft Windows technical note on file dates, referencing year 1601. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188768