1600

Years: 1597 1598 1599 - 1600 - 1601 1602 1603
Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century 1600 in literature 1600 in music 1600 in science

Table of contents

1 Events

Events

January

February

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

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 Nobilt� 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