Years: 1598 1599 1600 - 1601 - 1602 1603 1604

Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed
• February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded

• Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China
• Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer
• Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Malaga
• Battle of Kinsale, Ireland

Year in topic

• 1601 in literature:
  • Mark Twain's 1601, subtitled "Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside , in the Time of the Tudors", is a vulgar satire supposedly taken from Pepys' diaries.

Births

• May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
• August 20 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
• September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)

Deaths

• Tycho Brahe - Danish astronomer
• Scipione Ammirato - Italian historian