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Calendar overview 1606
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 Prince in Transylvania , is believed to be poisoned. |
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| 1606 in other calendars | |
| Armenian calendar | 1050/51 (turn of the year July) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1598/99 (September 10-11) |
| Bengali solar calendar | 1011/12 (beginning of April 14th or 15th) |
| Buddhist calendar | 2149/50 (southern Buddhism); 2148/2149 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 71st (72nd) cycle
Year of the fire horse丙午 ( at the beginning of the year wood snake 乙巳) |
| Chula Sakarat (Siam, Myanmar) / Dai calendar (Vietnam) | 968/969 (turn of the year April) |
| Dangun era (Korea) | 3939/40 (October 2/3) |
| Iranian calendar | 984/985 |
| Islamic calendar | 1014/15 (turn of the year 8/9 May) |
| Jewish calendar | 5366/67 (October 1-2) |
| Coptic Calendar | 1322/23 (September 10-11) |
| Malayalam calendar | 781/782 |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 1916/17 (turn of the year April)
Syria: 1917/18 (turn of the year October) |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 1662/63 (April) |
events
Politics and world events
England / Scotland
- April 12th: After England and Scotland in 1603 by James I./VI. have been united in personal union, the Union Jack is used for the first time by royal decree .
Eighty Years War
The siege of Groenlo by the Dutch in November ( Pieter Snayers )
- 3rd to 14th August: The siege of Groenlo by Spanish troops under Ambrosio Spinola in the Eighty Years' War ends with the conquest of the city . The attempt to recapture a few months later by Moritz von Oranien fails due to insufficient preparation.
Central Europe
- April 25: During the cross and flag battle in Donauwörth , the Catholic St. Mark's parade is disrupted by Protestants. The incident ends in a fight.
- June 23: The Peace of Vienna ends a months-long uprising against the Habsburgs in Upper Hungary . Archduke Matthias of Austria recognizes the leader Stephan Bocskai as Prince of Transylvania and grants religious freedom to Calvinists and Lutherans in Upper Hungary .
- November 11th: The Peace of Zsitvatorok ends the Long Turkish War of the Habsburgs under Rudolf II with the Ottoman Empire , which began with the Battle of Sissek in 1593.
- Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate fortified the city of Mannheim and built the Friedrichsburg fortress.
Russia
- May 8: Tsar Pseudodimitri I marries in the Dormition Cathedral , the daughter of the Polish magnate Marina Mniszech , triggering a wave of anti-Latin protests among Moscow boyars.
- May 17th: The fake Dimitri , who allegedly became the son of Ivan IV as the Russian tsar , is murdered by revolting nobles. Vasily IV was proclaimed his successor on May 19 by his party friends and was crowned tsar on June 1, 1606. With Swedish help, he managed to hold the throne until 1610 before he could be overthrown at the instigation of Poland.
- October 28 to December 2: Siege of Moscow for five weeks. After the assassination of the fake Dimitris, an opposition movement against the new boyar tzar Vasily IV formed in the southern regions among his former supporters , which expanded into a social protest movement. Their leader Ivan Isajewitsch Bolotnikow gathers rebellious peasants and servants around him and in July 1606 sets out from Putywl to march on Moscow. After the defeat at Kotly and the storming of Kolomenskoye to Kaluga , the rebels finally left .
Africa
- The third attempt by the Dutch to conquer the city of Elmina on the Portuguese Gold Coast fails.
Voyages of discovery
- February 10th: On his voyage across the Pacific , the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernández de Quirós comes across an inhabited island that he calls Conversion de San Pablo. It may be Tahiti . On May 3rd he reached the New Hebrides . He calls a particularly large island La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo in the belief that he has reached the legendary southern continent of Terra Australis .
The route of Willem Jansz on the Duyfken
- February or March: The continent of Australia is sighted for the first time by the Dutchman Willem Jansz and entered on the Cape York Peninsula .
business
- April 10th: James I founds the Plymouth Company and the Virginia Company of London .
Culture
Visual arts
- The oil painting Venetian harbor scene on whale shoulder blade is created.
Music and theater
- December 26: William Shakespeare's tragedy The Tragedy of King Lear ( King Lear ) is listed at the English court.
- The Ottoneum in Kassel is the first permanent and closed theater building on the European continent to be completed.
- Thomas Middleton writes The Puritan and William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth .
- Vido de Trasuntino builds the Clavemusicum omnitonum in Venice .
society
- In France, the Society of St. Ursula is founded by Anne de Xainctonge , which is mainly dedicated to teaching girls in school.
religion
- November 20: King James I of England sends a letter to the executives of the Virginia Company of London to forcibly convert the Native Americans to Anglicanism .
- The Benedictines build their new Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg .
Historical maps and views
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 1: Siegmund Wiprecht von Zerbst , German court official and politician († 1682)
- January 3: Daniel von Plessen , German administrative officer († 1672)
- February 9: Franz Ico von Frydag , German officer and diplomat († 1652)
- February 10: Christina of France , Duchess of Savoy († 1663)
- February 12: John Winthrop, Jr. , English governor of the Colony of Connecticut († 1676)
- February 23: Georg Friedrich , Count or Prince of Nassau-Siegen († 1674)
- March 3: Edmund Waller , English poet and politician († 1687)
- March 5: Johann Georg Reinhard , German lawyer and administrative officer († 1672)
- March 12: Johann Caspar Bauhin , Swiss doctor and botanist († 1685)
- March 18: Johann von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Prince-Bishop of Lübeck († 1655)
- March 20: Georg von Derfflinger , Brandenburg General Field Marshal († 1695)
- April 1: Ernst Christoph , Count von Rietberg († 1640)
- April 14: Juliane von Hessen-Darmstadt , Countess of East Frisia († 1659)
- May 12: Joachim von Sandrart , German painter, engraver and art historian († 1688)
- May 14: Agnes von Hessen-Kassel , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau († 1650)
- June 3: Georg Aribert von Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt regent († 1643)
- June 6: Pierre Corneille , French writer († 1684)
- June 7th: Francesco Gonzaga , Duke of Rethel († 1622)
- June 10: Corfitz Ulfeldt , Danish statesman († 1664)
- June 19: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton , English nobleman and military leader († 1649)
- July 6th: Justus Henricus Heidfeldt , Reformed theologian and philologist, teacher at the Count's court in Dillenburg († 1667)
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- July 15: Rembrandt van Rijn , Dutch painter († 1669)
- August 8: Achatius von Quitzow , member of the Fruitful Society († 1653)
- September 18: Niccolò Sagredo , 105th Doge of Venice († 1676)
- October 12: Christoph Bernhard von Galen , Prince-Bishop of Münster († 1678)
- October 14: Joan Maetsuycker , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies († 1678)
- November 9: Hermann Conring , polyhistor, personal physician to Christina of Sweden, Danish State Councilor and head of the Bremen-Verdean archive in Stade († 1681)
- November 9: Christoph Althofer , German Lutheran theologian († 1660)
- November 12: Jeanne Mance , French lay sister and nurse († 1673)
- November 13: Giacinto Andrea Cicognini , Italian playwright and librettist († 1649)
Exact date of birth unknown
- February: William Davenant , English writer and theater director († 1668)
- Frang Bardhi , Bishop of the Diocese of Sapa and Sardis († 1643)
- Jan Davidsz. de Heem , Dutch painter († 1683/1684)
Died
First half of the year
- January 11th: Arnold II. (IV.) , Count of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (* 1554)
- January 17th: Heinrich IV. , Count of Sayn-Sayn (* 1539)
- January 20: Sibylle Elisabeth of Württemberg , Duchess of Saxony (* 1584)
- January 30th: Benedikt von Ahlefeldt , lord of the noble estate Lehmkuhlen (* 1546)
- January 31: Guy Fawkes , English Catholic officer, assassin on King James I of England (* 1570)
- February 1: Guillaume Costeley , French organist and composer (* around 1531)
- February 10: Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo , Spanish officer, viceroy of New Spain and viceroy of Peru (* around 1560)
- March 2: Martin Moller , German mystic, writer of edification and hymn poet (* 1547)
- March 6th: Zbynko Berka von Duba and Leipa , Archbishop of Prague (* 1551)
- March 7th: Bogislaw XIII. , Duke of Pomerania (* 1544)
- March 10: Jacob , Emperor of Ethiopia (* before / around 1590)
- March 15: Balthasar von Dernbach , Prince Abbot of Fulda (* 1548)
- March 23: Justus Lipsius , Flemish legal philosopher and philologist (* 1547)
- April 2: Jakob Lindner , German educator (* 1544)
- April 3: Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire , English statesman and Viceroy of Ireland (* 1563)
- April 8: Karl II. , Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (* 1547)
- April 14: Joachim Scheel , Swedish Imperial Admiral (* 1531)
- May 3: Henry Garnet , English Jesuit (* 1555)
- May 4th: Hans von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg , imperial envoy in Madrid (* 1538)
- May 18: Wolfgang Amling , German theologian (* 1542)
- May 26: Diego Núñez de Avendaño , Spanish lawyer and viceroy of Peru (* before 1580)
- May 27th: the fake Dimitri , Tsar of Russia, according to his opponents in reality Yuri Otrepjew
- May 30th: Arjan Dev , fifth guru of the Sikhs (* 1563)
Second half of the year
- July 2: Matthäus Ackermann , Electoral Saxon civil servant (* 1544)
- July 7th: Christoph , owner of the lordship of Harburg (* 1570)
- August 6: Ottaviano Nonni , Italian architect, sculptor and painter (* 1536)
- 23 August: Eleonora von Zimmer , German nobleman (* 1554)
- September 9: Leonhard Lechner , Tyrolean composer (* around 1553)
- September 11th: Karel van Mander , Flemish poet, writer, painter and draftsman (* 1548)
- September 27: William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton , Scottish peer (* around 1540)
- October 18: John VI. , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and Regent of Gelderland (* 1536)
- October 28: Adolf Occo , German medic (* 1524)
- November 15: Erasmus Habermehl , German watchmaker and manufacturer of astronomical and geodetic instruments (* around 1538)
- November 24th: Johann von Efferen , lord of the castle of Stolberg
- December 29: Stephan Bocskai , reformed prince in Transylvania (* 1557)
- December 30th: Heinrich Bünting , German Protestant theologian and chronicler (* 1545)
Exact date of death unknown
- November: John Lyly , English writer (* 1553)
- Jacques d'Amboise , French surgeon (* 1559)
- Tiziano Aspetti , Italian sculptor (* around 1559)
- Giovanni Andrea Doria , Genoese admiral, commander in chief of the Genoese fleet in the Spanish service (* 1539)
- Leonhard Lechner , church musician in Württemberg (* before 1553)
- Jacob Ramminger , Wuerttemberg scribe, designer of mathematical-astronomical instruments and cartographer (* 1535)
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