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1601 Calendar
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1601 Historical Event(s)
- February 8, 1601 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I – the revolt is quickly crushed.
- August 3, 1601 – Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Guruslău.
- November 18, 1601 – Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
Who Were Born On 1601?
- January 8, 1601 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
- May 2, 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
- May 27, 1601 – Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1648)
- August 17, 1601 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- August 22, 1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (d. 1667)
- September 13, 1601 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1678)
- September 22, 1601 – Anne of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France (d. 1666)
- September 27, 1601 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
- November 14, 1601 – Jean Eudes, French missionary (d. 1680)