1602

1602 (MDCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1602nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 602nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1602, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1602 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1602
MDCII
Ab urbe condita2355
Armenian calendar1051
ԹՎ ՌԾԱ
Assyrian calendar6352
Balinese saka calendar1523–1524
Bengali calendar1009
Berber calendar2552
English Regnal year44 Eliz. 1  45 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2146
Burmese calendar964
Byzantine calendar7110–7111
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4298 or 4238
     to 
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4299 or 4239
Coptic calendar1318–1319
Discordian calendar2768
Ethiopian calendar1594–1595
Hebrew calendar5362–5363
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1658–1659
 - Shaka Samvat1523–1524
 - Kali Yuga4702–4703
Holocene calendar11602
Igbo calendar602–603
Iranian calendar980–981
Islamic calendar1010–1011
Japanese calendarKeichō 7
(慶長7年)
Javanese calendar1522–1523
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3935
Minguo calendar310 before ROC
民前310年
Nanakshahi calendar134
Thai solar calendar2144–2145
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
1728 or 1347 or 575
     to 
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
1729 or 1348 or 576
May 15: Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod

Events

January–June

  • January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 December, 1601 according to the old Julian calendar used by the English.)
  • February 2 (Candlemas night) – First known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in London.[1]
  • March 20 – The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.
  • April 20 – The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly is established by the Danish Monarch, in light of recently implemented absolutism.
  • May 15 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing in the Concord, becomes the first European at Cape Cod.
  • June – James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (modern-day 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.

July–December

  • October 34 – Battle of the Narrow Seas: an English fleet, joined by the Dutch, pursues six Spanish galleys through the Strait of Dover.
  • November 8 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is opened.[2]
  • December 11 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva (this actually takes place after midnight, in the early morning of December 12, but commemorations/celebrations on Fête de l'Escalade are usually held on December 11 or the closest weekend).

Ongoing

  • Russian famine of 1601–03
  • Long Turkish War (1591/1593-1606)
  • Jelali revolts

Date unknown

Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg born 29 January

Births

Mary of Jesus of Ágreda born 2 April
Gilles de Roberval born 10 August
William Morice (Secretary of State) born 6 November
Agnes of Jesus born 17 November

January–March

  • January 2
    • Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos, Spanish noble (d. 1658)
    • Sir Thomas Twisden, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1683)
  • January 14 – Sir Henry Slingsby, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1658)
  • January 18 – Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, fifth child of James VI of Scots and Anne of Denmark (d. 1602)
  • January 19 – Anna Maria Antigó, Spanish Catholic nun (d. 1676)
  • January 24 – Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, English politician (d. 1666)
  • January 29 – Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg, Regent of Hesse-Kassel (1637–1650) (d. 1651)
  • January 31 – Adam Billaut, French poet, carpenter (d. 1662)
  • February 2 – Jeanne des Anges, French Ursuline nun in Loudun (d. 1665)
  • February 12 – Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (d. 1660)
  • February 13 – William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1637)
  • February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer of the early Baroque period (d. 1676)
  • February 16 – Eleonore Dorothea of Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar by marriage (d. 1664)
  • February 18
    • Pieter Meulener, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1654)
    • Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1680)
  • March 12 – Juan Velez, Spanish Catholic prelate who was appointed Bishop of Cebu (d. 1661)
  • March 18 – Jacques de Billy, French Jesuit mathematician (d. 1679)
  • March 24 – Edward Leigh, English writer (d. 1671)
  • March 27 – Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1654)
  • March 29
    • John Arrowsmith, English theologian and academic (d. 1659)
    • John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar (d. 1675)

April–June

  • April – William Lawes, English composer and musician (d. 1645)
  • April 2 – Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer (d. 1665)
  • April 12 – Daniel Knudsen Bildt, Dano-Norwegian military officer and large estate owner in Norway (d. 1651)
  • April 28 – Tokugawa Yorinobu, Japanese nobleman (d. 1671)
  • April 30 – Robert Baillie, Scottish divine and historical writer (d. 1662)
  • May 1 – William Lilly, English astrologer (d. 1681)
  • May 2Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
  • May 10 – Samuel Newman, colonial Massachusetts clergyman (d. 1663)
  • May 12 – Dorothea Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, German duchess (d. 1682)
  • May 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
  • June 2 – Rudolf Christian, Count of East Frisia, ruler of East Frisia in the early years of the Thirty Years' War (d. 1628)

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

  • John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (d. 1678)
  • Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (d. 1675)
  • John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquary (d. 1652)
  • Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France (d. 1643)
  • Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English soldier (d. 1671)
  • Henry Marten, English lawyer, politician and regicide (d. 1680)
  • Theodorus Moretus, Flemish mathematician (d. 1667)
  • Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1676)
  • Dudley North, 4th Baron North, English politician (d. 1677)
  • Katarzyna Ostrogska, Polish noblewoman (d. 1642)
  • Antoine de l'Age, duc de Puylaurens, French courtier (d. 1635)
  • Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo, Italian educator (d. 1659)

Probable

  • Owen Feltham, English religious writer (d. 1668)
  • Richard Óge Martyn, Irish politician (d. 1648)
  • Salomon van Ruysdael, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1670)

Deaths

Ludvig Munk died 8 April
Anna of Mecklenburg died 4 July
Hedwig of Brandenburg died 21 October
David I of Kakheti died 21 October

January–March

  • January – Claude Fauchet, French historian
  • February 3 – Paulus Melissus, German composer (b. 1539)
  • February 13 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman (b. 1507)
  • February 19 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, French soldier (b. 1558)
  • March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (b. c. 1550)
  • March 12 – Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg and Nassau-Saarbrücken (1574–1602) (b. 1542)
  • March 22 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (b. 1557)
  • March 24 – Ii Naomasa, Japanese general (b. 1561)
  • March 25 – Joachim Frederick of Brieg, Duke of Wołów (b. 1550)

April–June

  • April 8 – Ludvig Munk, Governor-general of Norway (b. 1537)
  • April 10 – Amalia of Neuenahr, German noble (b. 1539)
  • April 20 – Thomas Tichborne, English martyr (b. 1567)
  • April 26 – Antonio Maria Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1537)
  • May 9 – Giulio Antonio Santorio, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)
  • May 22 – Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
  • May 27 – Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, infant son of King James I/VI

July–September

  • July 4 – Anna of Mecklenburg, Duchess consort of Courland (1566–1587) (b. 1533)
  • July 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, German noble (b. 1562)
  • August 12 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Mughal vizier and historian (b. 1551)
  • August 23 – Bastianino, Italian painter (b. c. 1536)
  • September 14 – Jean Passerat, French writer (b. 1534)
  • September 25
    • Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
    • William Redman, Bishop of Norwich (b. 1541)
  • September 30 – Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, daughter of Margrave John of Küstrin (b. 1549)

October–December

  • October – Thomas Morley, English composer (b. 1557)[5]
  • October 1 – Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist (b. 1541)
  • October 7 – Thomas Schweicker, German artist (b. 1540)
  • October 13 – Franciscus Junius, French theologian (b. 1545)
  • October 20 – Walter Leveson, English Elizabethan Member of Parliament, Shropshire landowner (b. 1550)
  • October 21
    • Hedwig of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (b. 1540)
    • King David I of Kakheti (b. 1569)
  • October 28 – John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, youngest son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (b. 1583)
  • October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (b. 1528)[6]
  • October 31 – Dominic Collins, Irish Jesuit lay brother and martyr (b. 1566)
  • November 23 – Agnes of Solms-Laubach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1578)
  • November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (b. c. 1545)
  • December 1 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1577)
  • December 29 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (b. 1561)

Date unknown

  • Kim Myeong-won, Korean politician
  • Epifani Olives i Terès, Spanish politician
  • Oda Ujiharu, Japanese warlord
  • Valpuri Innamaa, Finnish shipowner

References

  1. Shakespeare, William (2001). Smith, Bruce R. (ed.). Twelfth Night: Texts and Contexts. Boston, Mass: Bedford/St Martin's. p. 2. ISBN 0-312-20219-9.
  2. Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  3. David J. Sturdy (September 24, 2003). Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 87. ISBN 978-1-4039-4392-7.
  4. David E. Newton (2003). Encyclopedia of Air. Greenwood Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-57356-564-6.
  5. David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  6. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boissard, Jean Jacques" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 154. ...he died on the 30th of October 1602
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