1600 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1600?
- January 1, 1600 – Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
- February 17, 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome for heresy.
- February 19, 1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
- March 20, 1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden.
- August 5, 1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
- October 6, 1600 – Jacopo Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
- October 8, 1600 – San Marino adopts its written constitution.
- October 21, 1600 – Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
- December 17, 1600 – Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
- December 31, 1600 – The British East India Company is chartered.
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