1601-1602 жылдардағы маңызды оқиғалар мен жаңалықтар

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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) – In London, the first known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night takes place. 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. May 25 (May 15 Old Style) – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing in the Concord, becomes the first European at Cape Cod. June 2 – Dutch explorer Joris van Spilbergen lands on the eastern side of the island of Sri Lanka, at Santhamuruthu, and begins the process of attempting to establish a relationship with the rulers of the Kingdom of Kandy. June 3 – Anglo Spanish War (1585) – Battle of Sesimbra Bay off of the coast of Portugal: Five galleons of the English Royal Navy defeat a larger force of Spanish Navy ships. June 5 – 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. June 17 – An expedition of 14 Dutch Republic ships, commanded by Admiral Wybrand van Warwijck, departs from Texel on its expedition to the East Indies. June 18 – Nine Years' War (Ireland): Dunboy Castle in Ireland is taken by the English after 143 Irish defenders had withstood an 11 day siege by more than 4,000 English soldiers under the command of Sir George Carew. Of the 143 soldiers, who had been loyal to Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, 85 are killed in the siege, and the 58 survivors are hanged after the English victory.

July 7 – The German duchy of Saxe Altenburg, with a capital at Altenburg, is created as a separate duchy as a gift to Johann Philipp, the eldest son of his father Johann II, Duke of Saxe Weimar. July 26 – William Shakespeare's tragedyHamlet, recently premiered by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is licensed for publishing in London but not in fact printed at this time. July 29 – Juan de Zúñiga Flores, Bishop of Cartagena, becomes the Grand Inquisitor of Spain but serves for only five months before his death at the age of 55. August 22 – Abu'l Fazl ibn Mubarak, the prime minister for India's Mughal Emperor Akbar, is assassinated at Narwar as part of a plot by Emperor Akbar's son, Prince Salim, who will later succeed Akbar as Emperor Jahangir. Abu'l Fazl's killer, Vir Singh Bundela, sends the victim's severed head to Prince Salim as proof of the plot's success. September 1 – The Mutiny of Hoogstraten, a rebellion by soldiers of the Army of Flanders, begins with the seizure by 3,000 disgruntled mercenaries of the town of Hoogstraten (now in Belgium). The mutineers hold the town for almost two years before surrendering on 18 May 1604. September 10 – Rory O'Donnell (Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill) becomes the last Irish King of Tyrconnell upon the death of his brother, Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill). After less than a year, Rory allows Tyrconnell (modern day County Donegal in Northern Ireland) to come under Irish control in return for being created the Earl of Tyrconnell. September 12 – King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland receives the delivery of eight specially woven Persian carpets displaying Poland's royal coat of arms, after having dispatched agent Sefer Muratowicz to Kashan. September 20 – The siege of the Spanish Netherlands town of De Graaf ends after two months as a Dutch and English army forces the surrender of the Spanish defenders. September 30 – The siege of Weissenstein, a Swedish town that is now Paide in Estonia, ends after four months with a victory of 2,000 Polish and Lithuanian troops commanded by Jan Zamoyski, the Great Crown Hetman of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

October 3 – Battle of the Narrow Seas: An English fleet, joined by the Dutch, begins a pursuit of six Spanish galleys through the Strait of Dover, and defeats them the next day. November 8 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England is opened. 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).

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 2 – Athanasius 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)

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)

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