For the Mark Twain work, see 1601 (Mark Twain).

Year 1601 (MDCI) 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).

[edit] Events of 1601

Feb. 8: Essex.

[edit] January–June

• January 1 – The first day of the seventeenth century.
• 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.

[edit] July–December

Matteo Ricci.

• 24 December (Julian Calendar) – The Battle of Kinsale ends the siege of Kinsale, Ireland, a siege that started in the autumn of 1601. According to the Gregorian Calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, its date was 3 January 1602.

[edit] Undated

• The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, during the Ming Dynasty.
• A bad harvest occurs in Russia due to a rainy summer.
• Dutch troops drive the Portuguese from Málaga.
• A famine (-1603) kills about half the Estonian population.

[edit] Births

• January 8 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (d. 1658)
• May – Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (d. 1643)
• May 2 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
• August 17 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
• August 22 – Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (d. 1667)
• September 13 – Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• September 22 – Anna of Austria, queen of Louis XIII of France and regent (d. 1666)
• September 27 – King Louis XIII of France (d. 1643)
• date unknown
  • William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (d. 1678)
  • Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (d. 1681)
• probable
  • Adrian Scrope, English regicide (d. 1660)
  • François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (d. 1655)
  • Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (d. 1667)

See also Category:1601 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 – Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (b. 1534)
• February 25 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
• February 27 – Anne Line, English saint (birthdate unknown)
• April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (b. 1562)
• May 19 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
• August 9 – Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
• October 24 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
• date unknown
  • Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (b. 1531)
  • Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
  • Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (b. 1549)
• probable
  • Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (b. 1535)
  • John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1529)

See also Category:1601 deaths.

[edit] Notes

January 1, 1601, is used as the base of file dates^[1] by Microsoft Windows.

January 1, 1601, is used as the base of Active Directory Logon dates^[2] by Microsoft Windows.

ANSI dates are counted from 1601-01-01 and were adopted by the American National Standards Institute for use with COBOL and other computer languages. This epoch is the beginning of the last 400-year cycle by which leap-years are calculated in the Gregorian calendar. The last year of this cycle is the only one divisible by 100 that is a leap-year, which was the year 2000, and which was followed by a new 400-year cycle beginning with 2001. 32-bit versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system count units of one hundred nanoseconds from this epoch. http://www.decimaltime.hynes.net/dates.html

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