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Year 1601 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).

Events of 1601

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.

July - December

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.

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.

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)

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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)

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