Explore 150 historical events from 1600–1609.
Antonio Barberini was an Italian Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the House of Barberini. As one of the cardina…
Antonio Barberini, Italian cardinal (died 1671)
Anna d'Este was an important princess with considerable influence at the court of France and a central figure in the French Wars of Religion. In her first marriage, she was Duchess…
Anna d'Este, French princess (born 1531)
John Rainolds was an English academic and churchman, of Puritan views. He is remembered for his role in the Authorized Version of the Bible, a project of which he was initiator.
John Rainolds, English scholar and academic (born 1549)
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm, was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (born 1566)
Sir John Popham of Wellington, Somerset, was Speaker of the House of Commons, Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice of England.
John Popham, English politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1531)
Domenico Fontana was an Italian architect of the late Renaissance, born in today's Ticino. He worked primarily in Italy, at Rome and Naples.
Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (born 1543)
Cesare Baronio, known more commonly as Caesar Baronius[a] CO, was an Italian Oratorian, cardinal and historian of the Catholic Church. His best-known works are his Annales Ecclesia…
Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1538)
Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the English queen Anne of Denmark. She was the sister of…
Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire, English noblewoman (born 1563)
Bartholomew Gosnold was an English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America. He led the f…
Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (born 1572)
Joachim von Sandrart was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Du…
Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
John Bulwer was an English physician and early Baconian natural philosopher who wrote five works exploring the Body and human communication, particularly by gesture. He was the fi…
John Bulwer, British doctor (died 1656)
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot, and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lob…
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (died 1682)
Charles Garnier, was a Jesuit missionary working in New France. He was killed by Iroquois in a Petun village on December 7, 1649.
Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (died 1649)
Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (died 1684)
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and peer.
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier and politician (died 1675)
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, known as the 3rd Marquess of Hamilton from March 1625 until April 1643, was a Scottish nobleman and influential political and military leader …
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1649)
Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray was a French writer, collector, and a theorist of architecture and the arts. Though not a practitioner himself, his two major publications, Parallè…
Roland Fréart de Chambray (died 1676)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual …
Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1669)
Maria Anna of Spain was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia by her marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She acted as regent on several occasion…
Maria Anna of Spain (died 1646)
Henry Garnet, sometimes Henry Garnett, was an English Jesuit priest executed for high treason, based solely on having had advance knowledge of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and having re…
Henry Garnet, English priest and author (born 1555)
False Dmitry I or Pseudo-Demetrius I reigned as the Tsar of all Russia from 10 June 1605 until his death on 17 May 1606 under the name of Dmitriy Ivanovich. According to historian …
False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne (born 1582)
Guru Arjan was the fifth of the ten Sikh Gurus. He compiled the first official edition of the Sikh scripture called the Adi Granth, which later expanded into the Guru Granth Sahib.…
Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (born 1563)
(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Ca…
Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (died 1674)
Nikon, born Nikita Minin was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666. He was renowned for his eloquence, e…
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (died 1681)