1606
Information about 1606
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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Events of
January - June
- January 27 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.
- January 31 - Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
- April 12 - The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
- May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri.
July - December
- December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed at court.
Undated
- Storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain.
- The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
- First Union Flag created.
- The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, describes Latvian mythology.
- Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
- The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lıceum) is founded in Bratislava.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1606 MDCVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2359 |
| Armenian calendar | 1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -238 – -237 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2150 |
| Chinese calendar | 4242/4302-7-20 (乙巳年七月二十日) — to — 4243/4303-6-29(丙午年六月廿九日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1322 – 1323 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1598 – 1599 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5366 – 5367 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1661 – 1662 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1528 – 1529 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4707 – 4708 |
| Holocene calendar | 11606 |
| Iranian calendar | 984 – 985 |
| Islamic calendar | 1015 – 1016 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 0 (慶長0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2266 (皇紀2266年) |
| Julian calendar | 1651 |
| Korean calendar | 3939 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2149 |
- February 13 - John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
- February 28 - William Davenant, English poet and playwright (d. 1668)
- March - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (d. 1680)
- March 3 - Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)
- May 12 - Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
- May 23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
- May 25 - Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French author (d. 1684)
- June 16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
- June 19 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
- July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
- September 22 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
- September 27 - Richard Busby, English clergyman (d. 1695)
- November 12 - Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (d. 1673)
- date unknown
- Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (d. 1647)
- Edmund Castell, English orientalist (d. 1685)
- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1680)
- Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. 1660)
- Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (d. 1682)
- John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (d. 1685)
- Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (d. 1658)
- Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1633)
- Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (d. 1687)
Deaths
- January 30
- Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1565)
- January 31
- Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)
- Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)
- March 16 - Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
- March 23
- Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
- Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
- March 25 - François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
- April 3 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
- May 3 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
- May 17 - False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne
- September 2 - Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
- October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- November 13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
- November 20 - (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553)
- date unknown
- Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
- Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman
- Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)
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- The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.
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-1600- 1601 1602 1603 1604 . 1605 . 1606 . 1607 . 1608 . 1609 . 1610
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- Ethiopia -
- Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (1597-1603 and 1604-1607)
- Susenyos, Emperor of Ethiopia (1606-1632)
Asia
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Wanli, Emperor of China (1573-1620)
- Dai Viet
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1605 colonial governors - Events of 1606 - 1607 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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Portugal
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- Manuel Cerveira Pereira, Governor of Angola (1603-1606)
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This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A), or a year where "Doomsday" is Tuesday. Examples: Gregorian year 2006 or Julian year 1917 (see bottom tables).
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