Explore 230 historical events from 1600–1609.
Maria Anna of Spain was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia by her marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She acted as regent on several occasion…
Maria Anna of Spain (died 1646)
Sir Nicholas Slanning was a soldier and landowner from Devon who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He served in the Royalist army during the First English Civil War an…
Nicholas Slanning, English politician (died 1643)
Zhang Xianzhong, courtesy name Bingwu (秉吾), art name Jingxuan (敬軒), was a Chinese peasant leader who led a peasant rebellion from Yan'an wei, Shaanxi during the Ming-Qing transitio…
Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel leader (died 1647)
Li Zicheng, born Li Hongji, also known as the Dashing King, was a Chinese rebel leader who helped overthrow the Ming dynasty in April 1644 and claimed the imperial throne as the Yo…
Li Zicheng, Chinese emperor (died 1645)
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)
Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, playwright, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the…
Karel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (born 1548)
Philippe Desportes or Desports was a French poet.
Philippe Desportes, French poet and author (born 1546)
The Battle of Kircholm took place on 17 September 1605 during the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) near Kircholm, now Salaspils in Latvia. A Swedish expedition besieging Riga was def…
The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
(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)
Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke was an English lawyer, writer, parliamentarian, and one of the commissioners of the Great Seal during the Interregnum.
Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (died 1675)
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland. Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship of …
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1675)
Henry Hammond was an English churchman, church historian and theologian, who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.
Henry Hammond, English churchman and theologian (died 1660)
Philipp Moritz of Hanau-Münzenberg succeeded his father as Count of Hanau-Münzenberg in 1612.
Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (died 1638)
Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.
William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (died 1686)
Charles Coypeau was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s, he began using the nom de plume D'Assouci or Dassoucy.
Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (died 1677)
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)