1601

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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 ( [http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1601&country=20 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

* The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, during the Ming Dynasty.
* A bad harvest occurs in Russia due to a rainy summer.
* Dutch troops drive the Portuguese from Málaga.
* A famine (-1603) kills about half the Estonian population.

Births

* January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (d. 1658)
* May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (d. 1643)
* May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
* August 17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
* August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1667)
* September 13 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
* September 22 - Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (d. 1666)
* September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
*"date unknown"
**William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (d. 1678)
**Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (d. 1681)
*"probable"
**Adrian Scrope, English regicide (d. 1660)
**François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (d. 1655)
**Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (d. 1667)

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Deaths

* January 19 - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (b. 1534)
* February 25 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
* February 27 - Anne Line, English saint (birthdate unknown)
* April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (b. 1562)
* May 19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
* August 9 - Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
* October 24 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
*"date unknown"
**Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (b. 1531)
**Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
**Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (b. 1549)
*"probable"
**Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (b. 1535)
**John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529)

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Notes

January 1, 1601, is used as the base of file dates [Microsoft Windows technical note on file dates, referencing year 1601. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188768] by Microsoft Windows.

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