1601

This page relates to the year 1601 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Africa

Attempt at Jean Andre Doria against Algiers.

Asia

India: Salim, wire of Akbar, revolts with Allahabad against his/her father.
Java: Hispano-Portuguese is driven out roads of Banten and the Dutchmen can organize their first Javanese “cabin there”.
Forwardings of the English Company of the Eastern Indies in Indonesia (1601 and 1604).
the Dutchmen reach the Vietnam.
the missionary Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives at Beijing. It comes into contact with the emperor Wanli. Whereas it goes to Beijing, it is stopped in way by a Eunuque with Tianjin, is stripped and imprisoned several months. The emperor claims the visit from abroad who must present a clock to him. Ricci is released and received by the emperor. It will contribute to the manufacture of guns.

Japan: Ieyasu Tokugawa redistributes the strongholds with its faithful and the number reduces some. They do not constitute any more the burst pieces of a personal regional power, but of the administrative units depending on the central capacity, which can with its own way allot them or take them again. In this administrative reorganization, thousands of soldiers, whose the small vassal ones, must choose between becoming again country or accepting a military employment at a more powerful lord. Many men find themselves without incomes and will enlarge the mass of the Rōnin.

Europe

Plague in Europe.

January 10th: The court of Philippe III of Spain is transferred to Valladolid, which becomes capital Spain (fine in 1606).
February 25th: The duke of Essex, favorite of the queen, who had conspired with Jacques VI of Scotland, is carried out by Elisabeth Ire of England after the failure of its rebellion, afterwards many hesitations of the queen.
June: Pouring rain and believed in the Balkans.
August 3rd: Michel the Brave man beats the Transylvanian ones revolted in Goroslau, but is assassinated shortly after on order of Georges Basta, sent of the emperor (August 9th). Sigismond Báthory takes again the Transylvania.
August 23rd: Radu IX Mihnea becomes voïévode of Valachie by the will of the sultan. He reigns to five recovery on the Valachie (1601 - 1602, 1611 - 1616) and the Moldavie (1616 - 1619, 1623 - 1626). He surrounds himself by Greeks and Levantines and holds a sumptuous court.
July 4th: Beginning of the Head office of Ostend by the Spaniards (end the September 22nd 1604).
September: Revolt with the Derry; the Irish rebels receive the support of 4000 Spaniards directed by Don Juan d' Aguila who are locked up in Kinsale. This forwarding fails, following the defeat of Kinsale (January 3rd 1602), had with a bad coordination between the Irish and Spanish troops. This defeat marked the end of the Spanish maritime ambitions in north of Europe.
October 2nd - January 3rd 1602: Head office of Kinsale. With end of vivres and ammunition, the garrison must return the city to the Lord deputy Mountjoy to be able to leave in December freely. The owners Irish are driven out of Ulster by Mountjoy and replaced by English (1601 - 1611): dissenting catholics, Protestants (presbytériens) and Anglicans are put in presence.

After having poured a bribe of 100 000 ducats with the king, the Juifs converted Portugal receive the authorization to emigrate in Spain and towards the colonies (authorization suspended in 1610 then restored definitively in 1629).
With the Portugal, more than 98% of the lawsuits of the Inquisition for religious mobiles gives a report on charge of Judaism between 1601 and 1668.
Institution of the total first Poor Law in England, to govern the assistance with the poor ones.

France

Period of spring and summers heat or means of 1601 with 1616.

January 17th: Treaty of Lyon with Charles-Emmanuel Ier of Savoy, negotiated by the diplomat Pierre Jeannin: it puts Lyon safe from possible incursions of Savoy, France acquires the Bresse, the Bugey, the Valromey and the Pays of Gex, integrated into the Burgundy. Savoy acquires Marquisat of Saluces. Nice remains with the Savoy. The French make gleam in Savoy the Spanish Milanese and guarantee the independence of Geneva.
May: disorders in the provinces against the new taxes.
August 25th: establishment of a new room of justice.

French Military intervention to impress the Spaniards who besiege Ostend held by the Dutchmen.

Russia

Bad harvests and famine (1601 - 1603). Close to 500 000 victims, of which 200 000 in Moscow. This famine weakens the capacity already disputed of Boris Godounov.
Fédor Romanov, wire of Nikita (brother of Anastasia Romanovna Zakharine, woman of Ivan IV), shown to have plotted against Boris Godounov, is arrested and imprisoned. Its family is proscribed and it must enter in religion with his Marfa wife and her four brothers.

Art & culture

April 18th: Beginning of the rebuilding of the Cathedral Holy-Cross of Orleans.
the Italian painter Caravage painted the Conversion of Saint Paul . A table having for subject the Death of the Virgin is ordered to him for a Roman church.
Annibal Carrache makes the decoration of the Palais Farnèse with Rome.

Of the fortifications and artifices, architecture and perspective of Jacques Perret.

Science & technology

Economy & company

April: The Manufacture of the Goblins is opened with Paris. CH. Coomans and Frans Van der Plaken work in low stringer in the buildings of a dyeing of the family of the Goblins close to Bièvre.
May 31st: First tournament of Water tournaments with Agde.
June: Edict of Fontainebleau on the mines and mines.

Edict regulating artillery in France (royal monopoly on the manufacture and the use of the powders).
Evacuation of the Parisian refuse by tipcarts under the terms of the general lease of 1601.
Taken again moderate of the agricultural wages in the Paris region with index 102,6 (cf 1590, 1615).
Olivier de Serres and Laffemas vainly tries to acclimatize the Mûrier in Île-de-France.
Promulgation of the Poor Law in England, official regulation of the assistance to the poor and their monitoring.
In England, the Communes prohibit the Crown from granting monopolies.
Development of the port of Leghorn to the detriment of Venice thanks to the support of the large-dukes of Tuscan, the equipment of the port (1580), the opening of the city to the Jewish and liberal customs mode. The city passed from 563 inhabitants in 1560 to 5000 in 1601.
sugar exports of the Brésil reach 750 000 arrobas (1 arrobas = 14 kg).

Births in 1601

January 19th: Guido Cagnacci, painter Baroque Italy N († 1663).
August 17th: Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician († 1665)
August 22nd: Georges de Scudéry, French writer, French academician (armchair 32) († 1667)
September 22nd: Anne of Austria, Infant E of Spain, girl of the king d' Espagne Philippe III, wife of Louis XIII of France
September 27th: Louis XIII, king de France

nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

Jacques Champion of Chambonnières, harpsichordist and type-setter French

Death in 1601

January 29th: Louise of Lorraine, queen of France of 1575 with 1589 († in 1553)
June 24th: Henriette of Nevers, noble Frenchwoman, duchess of Nevers and countess of Rethel († the October 31st 1542, 58 years)
August 9th: Michel the Brave man († in 1558)
October 24th: Tycho Brahé, Danish astronomer

nonwell informed or unknown Dates :

Scipione Ammirato, historian Italy N († in 1531)
Sahabi, Persan poet

Easter Day

April 22nd: Sunday of Easter
For other religious holidays, to see Comput

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