Major Events
- Jan 1 Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March.
- Jan 15 French King Henri IV grants military captain Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit a ten-year commission for the fur trade in New France - he goes on to found doomed colony of Tadoussac [1]
- Feb 4 Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague
- Feb 8 Vatican convicts scholar and wayward friar Giordano Bruno of heresy and turn him over civil authorities upon his refusal to recant to mete out his punishment of death [1]
- Feb 17 Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisition [1]
- Feb 19 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history
- Mar 20 The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden
- Apr 21 1st date in James Clavell's novel Shogun (OS)
- Jul 1 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Netherlands
- Jul 2 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
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Who Died in 1600
- Feb 13 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and poet (Trattato), dies at 61
- Feb 15 Jose the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
- Feb 17 Giordano Bruno, Italian friar and scholar, advocate of Copernican theory, executed at 51 or 52 (b. 1548) [1]
- Aug 2 Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70
- Aug 15 Johann Baptista Serranus, German singer and composer, dies at 60
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Famous Weddings in 1600
- Oct 5 Marriage by proxy of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV of France
- Dec 17 Religious wedding of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici at Lyon Cathedral
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