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- For the Marvel comic, see 1602 (comic).
| Years: 1599 1600 1601 - 1602 - 1603 1604 1605 | |
| Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s | |
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century | |
Events
- February 14 - William Shakespeare First performance of Twelfth Night on Candlemas
- March 20 - The Dutch East India Company is established as The United East India Company by the Dutch States-General
- May 15 - Bartolomew Gosnold becomes the first European to discover Cape Cod.
- June - James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (now Aceh), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler. Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese Galleon and loots it.
- Ben Jonson writes Poetaster
- William Shakespeare writes The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Persia declares war on Ottoman Empire
- Bodleian Library founded
- In Praque, Florian Mathias performs the first successful bowel surgery – removes a dagger from stomach
- Jesuit missionary Jeronimo de Angeluin arrives in Japan
- A private trading company is established in Copenhagen, with the monopoly on the trade with Iceland.
Births
- January 18 - Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre, fifth child of King James I of England (died 1602)
- February 14 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (died 1676)
- February 18 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (died 1680)
- March 29 - John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar (died 1675)
- May 1 - William Lilly, English astrologer (died 1681)
- May 26 - Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (died 1674)
- July 14 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (died 1661)
- August 8 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (died 1675)
- August 31 - Amalia von Solms, countess of Solms-Braunfels (died 1675)
- October 12 - William Chillingworth, English churchman (died 1644)
- November 20 - Otto von Guericke, German inventor and Mayor of Magdeburg (died 1686)
- November 22 - Elisabeth of France, daughter of King Henry IV of France (died 1644)
- December 7 - Delano family, Plymouth Colony settler (died 1681)
- Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historical writer (died 1662)
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (died 1678)
- John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (died 1659)
- Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomatist (died 1675)
- Owen Feltham, English religious writer (died 1668)
- John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (died 1652)
- Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (died 1643)
- William Lawes, English composer and musician
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (died 1671)
- Henry Marten, English regicide (died 1680)
- Théodore Moret, Belgian mathematician
- Dudley North, 4th Baron North (died 1677)
- Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (died 1668)
- Richard Martin fitz Oliver, Galway lawyer and a member of the Catholic Confederates of Ireland (died 1648)
- Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (died 1642)
- Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, French courtier (died 1635)
- Salomon van Ruisdael, Dutch landscape painter (died 1670)
- Tokugawa Yorinobu, Japanese nobleman (died 1671)
Deaths
- February 13 - Alexander Nowell, dean of St Paul's, London (born 1507)
- March 22 - Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (born 1557)
- May 27 - Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre, fifth child of King James I of England (born 1602)
- September 25 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (born 1525)
- October 30 - Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (born 1528)
- December 1 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1582)
- Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born 1550)
- Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (born 1561)
- Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Spanish explorer (born 1532)
- Anthony Holborne, English composer (born 1550)
- Thomas Morley, English composer (born 1557)
- Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (born 1524)
- Martin Ruland, German alchemistaf:1602
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