1606

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Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Years:	1603 1604 1605 - 1606 - 1607 1608 1609

1606 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

Year 1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

1 Events of 1606
2 Births
3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1606

[edit] 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.
February 26 - Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
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.#

[edit] July - December

December 26 - Shakespeare's King Lear performed at court.

[edit] 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.
The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum) is founded in Bratislava.

[edit] Births

**1606 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1606 MDCVI
Ab urbe condita	2359
Armenian calendar	1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-238 – -237
Berber calendar	2556
Buddhist calendar	2150
Burmese calendar	968
Chinese calendar	4242/4302-11-23 (乙巳年十一月廿三日) — to — 4243/4303-12-3 (丙午年十二月初三日)
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	1014 – 1015
Japanese calendar	Keichō 11 (慶長11年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2266 (皇紀2266年)
Julian calendar	1651
Korean calendar	3939
Thai solar calendar	2149
v • d • e

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)

See also Category:1606 births.

[edit] 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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