Explore 111 historical events from 1600–1609.
Charles Garnier, was a Jesuit missionary working in New France. He was killed by Iroquois in a Petun village on December 7, 1649.
Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (died 1649)
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (died 1684)
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and peer.
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier and politician (died 1675)
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, known as the 3rd Marquess of Hamilton from March 1625 until April 1643, was a Scottish nobleman and influential political and military leader …
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1649)
Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallè…
Roland Fréart de Chambray (died 1676)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual …
Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1669)
Henry Garnet, sometimes Henry Garnett, was an English Jesuit priest executed for high treason, based solely on having had advance knowledge of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and having re…
Henry Garnet, English priest and author (born 1555)
False Dmitry I or Pseudo-Demetrius I reigned as the Tsar of all Russia from 10 June 1605 until his death on 17 May 1606 under the name of Dmitriy Ivanovich. According to historian …
False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne (born 1582)
Guru Arjan was the fifth of the ten Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib.…
Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (born 1563)
(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Ca…
Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (died 1674)
Nikon, born Nikita Minin was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666. He was renowned for his eloquence, e…
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (died 1681)
Peregrine Palmer was an English politician who sat as MP for Bridgwater on 7 December 1669.
Peregrine Palmer, English politician (died 1684)
Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist, recognised by his mentor Ben Jonson as being a promising writer of comedy, and amongst his contemporaries had a reputation as a w…
Thomas Randolph, English poet and playwright (died 1635)
Theodore Haak was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. Haak's communications abilities and interests in the new science provided the backdrop for convenin…
Theodore Haak, German scholar (died 1690)
Simon Dach was a German lyrical poet and hymnwriter, born in Memel, Duchy of Prussia.
Simon Dach, German poet and hymn-writer (died 1659)
Boris Feodorovich Godunov was the de facto regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty. After …
Boris Godunov, Russian ruler (born 1551)
Pope Leo XI, born Alessandro di Ottaviano de' Medici, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 April 1605 to his death, on 27 April 1605. His pontificat…
Pope Leo XI (born 1535)
Ulisse Aldrovandi was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carl Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the …
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (born 1522)
Feodor II Borisovich Godunov was Tsar of all Russia from April to June 1605, during the Time of Troubles.
Feodor II of Russia (born 1589)
Miguel de Benavides y Añoza, O.P. was a Spanish Catholic prelate and sinologist who served as the third Archbishop of Manila. He previously served as the first Bishop of Nueva Sego…
Miguel de Benavides, Spanish archbishop and sinologist (born 1552)
Naresuan, commonly known as Naresuan the Great, or Sanphet II was the 18th monarch of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and the 2nd of the Sukhothai dynasty. He was the king of the Ayutthaya K…
Naresuan, Siamese King of Ayutthaya Kingdom (born c
A cardinal is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop o…
After a scuffle in which one cardinal had several bones broken, a papal conclave convened in Rome elected Camillo Borghe
Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer, navigator, cartographer, soldier, geographer, diplomat, and chronicler who founded Quebec City and established New France as a permanent …
Samuel de Champlain encounters the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Sa
Joris Jansen Rapelje was a member of the Council of Twelve Men in the Dutch West India Company colony of New Netherland. He and his wife Catalina (Catalyntje) Trico (1605–1689) wer…
Joris Jansen Rapelje, Dutch settler in colonial North America (died 1662)