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Contents
1 Events
1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 July
1.4 October
1.5 December
1.6 Undated
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References
Events
January
January 1
-
Scotland
adopts
January 1st
as being
New Year's Day
February
February 17
-
Giordano Bruno
burned in a stake for
heresy
July
July 2
-
Battle of Nieuwpoort
: Dutch forces under
Maurice of Nassau
defeat
Spanish
forces under
Archduke Albert
in a battle on the coastal dunes.
October
October 6
-
Jacopo Peri's
Euridice
, the earliest surviving
Opera
, is premiered in
Florence
.
October 8
-
San Marino
gains its written constitution.
October 21
-
Battle of Sekigahara
in
Japan
, in which
Tokugawa Ieyasu
defeated
Ishida Mitsunari
, setting the stage for the rule of the
Tokugawa shogunate
. End of the
Azuchi-Momoyama period
and beginning of the
Edo period
.
December
December 31
-
Royal charter
incorporates the
British East India Company
in
London
Undated
Sumo Wrestling
becomes a professional sport in
Japan
.
William Gilbert
publishes De Magnete which describes the Earth's
magnetic field
and is the beginning of modern
Geomagnetism
.
Fabritio Caroso
's
Nobiltà de dame
is published.
Battle of Suceava - Prince
Sigismund Bathory
of
Transylvania
is defeated by the Voivode
Michael the Brave
of
Moldavia
as part of the internecine conflict in Hungary and the Danubian Principalities.
Ulster
chieftains with the lead of
Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
, resist English reconquest of
Ireland
Births
January 28
-
Pope Clement IX
(d.
1669
)
November 19
- King
Charles I of England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
(d.
1649
)
Deaths
February 17
-
Giordano Bruno
, religious reformer (burned at the stake) (b.
1548
)
November 6
-
Ishida Mitsunari
, Japanese feudal lord (decapitated by a blunt wooden saw) (b.
1560
)
References
Spielvogel
--
(5th Edition), p.401
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