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1606

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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August 16: The Battle of Cape Rachado is fought between Portugal and the Dutch East India Company
1606 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1606
MDCVI
Ab urbe condita2359
Armenian calendar1055
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Assyrian calendar6356
Balinese saka calendar1527–1528
Bengali calendar1013
Berber calendar2556
English Regnal yearJa. 1 – 4 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2150
Burmese calendar968
Byzantine calendar7114–7115
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4303 or 4096
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4304 or 4097
Coptic calendar1322–1323
Discordian calendar2772
Ethiopian calendar1598–1599
Hebrew calendar5366–5367
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1662–1663
 - Shaka Samvat1527–1528
 - Kali Yuga4706–4707
Holocene calendar11606
Igbo calendar606–607
Iranian calendar984–985
Islamic calendar1014–1015
Japanese calendarKeichō 11
(慶長11年)
Javanese calendar1526–1527
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3939
Minguo calendar306 before ROC
民前306年
Nanakshahi calendar138
Thai solar calendar2148–2149
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1732 or 1351 or 579
    — to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1733 or 1352 or 580

1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1606th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 606th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1606, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Births

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Edmund Waller
John Bulwer
Wouter van Twiller
Julian Maunoir
Hermann Conring
Jeanne Mance

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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Rembrandt

October–December

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Date unknown

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Deaths

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Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania
Turibius of Mogrovejo
Henry Garnet
Guru Arjan

References

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  1. ^ Guy Eden (1949). The Parliament Book. Staples Press. p. 29.
  2. ^ Norman Davies, Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey Into History (Penguin Books, 2017)
  3. ^ McHugh, Evan (2006). 1606: An Epic Adventure. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-86840-866-8.
  4. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  5. ^ "The Impact of Jacques Gillot's Actes du Concile de Trente (1607) in the Debate Concerning the Council of Trent in France", by Tom Hamilton, in The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700) (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018) p. 376
  6. ^ William Eisler, The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook (Cambridge University Press, 1995) p.47
  7. ^ Richardson, William A. R. (2008). Was Australia Charted Before 1606: the Jave la Grande Inscriptions. Australia: Everbest. p. 20.
  8. ^ W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 2000) p. 80
  9. ^ Scholars date completion as between 1603 and 1606. Boyce, Charles (1990). Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare. New York: Roundtable Press.
  10. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  11. ^ HS: Kaarle IX perusti Vaasan 1606 (in Finnish)
  12. ^ Evelyn Wrench; Sir Evelyn Wrench (1949). Transatlantic London: Three Centuries of Association Between England and America. Hutchinson. p. 5.
  13. ^ "The Tragedy of King Lear", in The New Cambridge Shakespeare, ed. by Jay L. Halio (Cambridge University Press, 1992) p.1
  14. ^ The Pilgrim of Our Lady of Martyrs. Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs. 1902. p. 240.
  15. ^ Charles L. Mee Jr. (24 October 2016). Rembrandt: A Life. New Word City. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-61230-700-8.
  16. ^ a b c Faith Nostbakken; William Shakespeare (1997). Understanding Macbeth: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-313-29630-7.