1601
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This article is about the year 1601. For other uses, see 1601 (number).
| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |
| Years: | 1598 1599 1600 - 1601 - 1602 1603 1604 |
| 1601 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
- For the Mark Twain work, see 1601 (Mark Twain).
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 (Julian-1601) of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1601
[edit] January - June
- 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.
- February 25 - Tycho Brahe moves to the palace of Curtius in Prague, rented by the emperor Rudolf II; the astronomical instruments are also moved to the palace.
- April - Tycho writes in a letter that all of the instruments are in the palace of Curtius.
[edit] July - December
- July - Johannes Kepler is given the assignment to calculate the Rudolfian Tables.
- July 17 - Tycho's daughter Elisabeth is married to Tengnagel in Prague.
- July 24 - Tycho receives his last letter from Ulrik of Meklenburg.
- October 11 - Tycho's last observation is recorded.
- October 13 - During a banquet hosted by Peter Vok von Rosenberg, Tycho becomes ill, most probably due to poisoning or acute prostatitis.
- October 24 - Tycho dies of ureamia (urine in the blood, symptom of some poisonings with heavy metals; mercury was found in his hair taken a couple of days before he died) between 9-10 in the morning.
- October 28 - The emperor Rudolf II purchases all the instruments and observations from Tycho's widow Kirsten.
- November 4 - Tycho is buried in the Teyn-church at Prague. On his tombstone are the words:" Non faces nec opes, sola artis sceptra perennant" (English: "Neither power nor wealth, only Art and Science will endure").
- 24 December (Julian Calendar) - The Battle of Kinsale ends the siege of Kinsale, Ireland, a siege thate started in the autumn of 1601. and ended in the which happened on according to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, its date was 3 January 1602.
[edit] Undated
- Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China.
- Bad harvest occurs in Russia due to rainy summer.
- Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Málaga.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1601 MDCI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2354 |
| Armenian calendar | 1050 ԹՎ ՌԾ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -243 – -242 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2145 |
| Chinese calendar | 4237/4297-11-27 (庚子年十一月廿七日) — to —
4238/4298-12-8(辛丑年十二月初八日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1593 – 1594 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5361 – 5362 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1656 – 1657 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1523 – 1524 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4702 – 4703 |
| Holocene calendar | 11601 |
| Iranian calendar | 979 – 980 |
| Islamic calendar | 1009 – 1010 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 6 (慶長6年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2261 (皇紀2261年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11601 |
| Julian calendar | 1646 |
| Korean calendar | 3934 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2144 |
- January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (died 1658)
- May - Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
- May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (died 1680)
- August 17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
- September 13 - Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)
- September 22 - Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (died 1666)
- September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (died 1643)
- date unknown
- William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (died 1678)
- Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (died 1681)
- probable
- Adrian Scrope, English regicide (died 1660)
- François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (died 1655)
- Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
- See also Category:1601 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 19 - Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (born 1534)
- February 25 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (born 1566)
- April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (born 1562)
- May 19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (born 1528)
- August 9 - Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (born 1558)
- October 24 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1546)
- date unknown
- Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1531)
- Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
- Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (born 1549)
- probable
- Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
- John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
- See also Category:1601 deaths.
