1600 Calendar
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1600 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1600
– Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
February 17, 1600
– The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
February 19, 1600
– The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
March 20, 1600
– The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
August 5, 1600
– The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
October 6, 1600
– Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
October 8, 1600
– San Marino adopts its written constitution.
October 21, 1600
– Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
December 17, 1600
– Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
December 31, 1600
– The British East India Company is chartered.
Who Were Born On 1600?
January 1, 1600
– Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
January 17, 1600
– Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
January 28, 1600
– Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
February 2, 1600
– Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
November 19, 1600
– Charles I of England (d. 1649)