Explore 230 historical events from 1600–1609.
Giacomo Torelli was an Italian stage designer, scenery painter, engineer, and architect. His work in stage design, particularly his designs of machinery for creating spectacular sc…
Giacomo Torelli, Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (died 1678)
Alfonso Michele Litta was an Italian nobleman who was a Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan from 1652 to 1679.
Alfonso Litta, Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop (died 1679)
Jean-Jacques Olier, S.S. was a French Catholic priest and the founder of the Sulpicians. He also helped to establish the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal, which organised the settlem…
Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (died 1657)
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Benedetto Castelli. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for h…
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset was an English statesman, poet, and dramatist. He was the son of Richard Sackville, a cousin to Anne Boleyn. He was a Member of Parliament and …
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1536)
Charles III, known as the Great, was Duke of Lorraine from 1545 until his death.
Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)
Francis Caracciolo, born Ascanio dei Caracciolo Pisquizi, was an Italian Catholic priest who co-founded the Order of the Clerics Regular Minor with John Augustine Adorno and Fabriz…
Francis Caracciolo, Italian Catholic priest (born 1563)
Alberico Gentili was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at t…
Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (born 1551)
Joachim Frederick, of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death.
Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1546)
Pomponio Nenna was a Neapolitan Italian composer of the Renaissance. He is mainly remembered for his madrigals, which were influenced by Gesualdo, and for his polychoral sacred mot…
Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer (born 1556)
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish earl and soldier.
Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, last King of Tyrconnell (born 1575)
Giambologna, also known as Jean de Boulogne (French), Jehan Boulongne (Flemish) and Giovanni da Bologna (Italian), was the last significant Italian Renaissance sculptor, with a lar…
Giambologna, Italian sculptor (born 1529)
Martin Anton Delrio SJ was a Dutch Jesuit theologian. He studied at numerous institutions, receiving a master's degree in law from Salamanca in 1574. After a period of political se…
Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and author (born 1551)
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, …
Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi debuted his second opera L'Arianna, now one of his lost works, at a royal wedding in
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war include…
Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar
Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (1593), and English colonist in America. He was the son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, and the grandson of Richar…
Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced…
Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech engraver, etcher and painter. He spent much of his life in England. He often created cityscapes and landscapes, including vedutas. He was born in Prag…
Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and illustrator (died 1677)
Landgrave Hermann IV of Hesse-Rotenburg, was the first Landgrave of the semi-independent Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg. He was the fourth son of the Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Ka…
Herman IV, landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (died 1658)
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell was an English peer. He was the son of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell by his wife Mary, daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester …
Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, Governor of Lecale (born 1560)
The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast was named Vi…
The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi…
English colonists establish "James Fort", which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlem
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi…
Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi…
Virginia Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi…
Virginia colonists finish building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Native American attacks