1601
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| Years: 1598 1599 1600 - 1601 - 1602 1603 1604 | |
| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
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Events
- January 1 - Windows Win32 FILETIME epoch at 00:00:00 UTC.
- February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed
- February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded
- Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China
- Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer
- Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Malaga
- Battle of Kinsale, Ireland
Year in topic
- 1601 in literature:
- Mark Twain's 1601, subtitled "Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors", is a vulgar satire supposedly taken from Pepys' diaries.
Births
- January 8 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (died 1658)
- January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish dramatist and poet (died 1681)
- May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar (died 1680)
- August 17 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (died 1665)
- August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet (died 1667)
- September 22 - Anna of Austria, Queen Consort of France and Regent (died 1666)
- September 27 - King Louis XIII of France (died 1643)
- Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1678)
- William Coddington, first governor of Rhode Island (died 1678)
- Jacques Gaffarel, French librarian and astrologer (died 1681)
- Baltasar Gracián, Spanish Jesuit philosopher and writer (died 1658)
- François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist (died 1655)
- Tagawa Matsu, Japanese mother of Taiwanese hero Koxinga (died 1646)
- Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (died 1643)
- Adrian Scrope, English Regicide (died 1660)
- Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester (died 1667)
Deaths
- February 25 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (born 1566)
- April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (born 1562)
- May 19 - Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (born 1528)
- August 9 - Mihai Viteazul, Prince of Wallachia (born 1558)
- October 24 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (born 1546)
- Scipione Ammirato, Italian historian (born 1531)
- Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer
- John Farmer, English composer (born 1570)
- Claude Fauchet, French historian and antiquary (born 1530)
- Joris Hoefnagel, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1545)
- Juan de Fuca, Greek explorer
- Thomas North, English translator of Plutarch (born 1535)
- Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English statesman (born 1534)
- John Shakespeare, English glover and farmer, father of William Shakespeare (born 1529)
- Ogawa Suketada, Japanese daimyo (born 1549)af:1601
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