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Year 1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1606
=January–June=
January 27 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.
January 31 – Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
February 26 – Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
March 10 – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, which makes him Emperor of Ethiopia.
March 19 – The Granduca of Toscana Ferdinando I, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francesco, elevates Livorno at the rank of city.
April 10 – The First Charter of Virginia is adopted.
April 12 – The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
May 17 – Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri.
=July–December=
August 14 – A Dutch fleet is defeated by a Portuguese fleet in the Battle of Cape Rachado
November 11– Treaty of Zsitvatorok between Ottoman (Turkish) Empire and Holy Roman Empire The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
December 26 – Shakespeare's King Lear is performed before King James I in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.
=Undated=
A storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
The first Union Flag is created.
The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, and describes Latvian mythology.
The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum) is founded in Bratislava.
Births
February 13 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (d. 1668)
March – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (d. 1680)
March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (d. 1687)
May 12 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (d. 1688)
May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French author (d. 1684)
June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)
June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669)
September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
September 27 – Richard Busby, English clergyman (d. 1695)
November 12 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (d. 1673)
date unknown
Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (d. 1647)
Edmund Castell, English orientalist (d. 1685)
Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1680)
Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. 1660)
Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (d. 1682)
John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (d. 1685)
Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (d. 1658)
Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1633)
Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (d. 1687)
See also :Category:1606 births.
Deaths
January 30
Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1565)
January 31
Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)
Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)
Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)
March 10 – Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
March 16 – Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
March 23
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
March 25 – François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
April 3 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
May 3 – Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
May 17 – False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne
September 2 – Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
October 5 – Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
November 13 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
November 20 – (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553)
date unknown
Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman
Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)
See also :Category:1606 deaths.
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