1602

This article is about the year 1602. For other uses, see 1602 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1599 1600 1601 – 1602 – 1603 1604 1605

1602 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1602 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1602 MDCII
Ab urbe condita	2355
Armenian calendar	1051 ԹՎ ՌԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	6352
Bengali calendar	1009
Berber calendar	2552
English Regnal year	44 Eliz. 1 – 45 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2146
Burmese calendar	964
Byzantine calendar	7110–7111
Chinese calendar	辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4298 or 4238     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4299 or 4239
Coptic calendar	1318–1319
Discordian calendar	2768
Ethiopian calendar	1594–1595
Hebrew calendar	5362–5363
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1658–1659
- Shaka Samvat	1524–1525
- Kali Yuga	4703–4704
Holocene calendar	11602
Igbo calendar	602–603
Iranian calendar	980–981
Islamic calendar	1010–1011
Japanese calendar	Keichō 7 (慶長７年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3935
Minguo calendar	310 before ROC 民前310年
Thai solar calendar	2144–2145

May 15: Bartholomew Gosnold – Cape Cod

1602 (MDCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1602nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 602nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 17th century, and the 3rd year of the 1600s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1602 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The battle happened on Thursday, 3 January 1602 according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle, although, for the English who were still using the old Julian calendar, the date of the battle was Thursday, 24 December 1601.
• February 2 (Candlemas night) – First known production of William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in London.
• 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.
• May 15 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European at Cape Cod.
• June – James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (now 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.

July–December

• November 8 – The Bodleian Library at Oxford University 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 took 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).

Ongoing events

• Russian famine of 1601–03
• Long Turkish War (1591/1593-1606)
• Jelali revolts

Date unknown

• Portuguese expelled from Bahrain.
• Ben Jonson writes The Poetaster.
• William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
• The Safavid dynasty of Persia and the Spanish Empire conclude a defensive alliance and declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
• A private trading company is established in Copenhagen, with a monopoly on the trade with Iceland.
• The iconoclast and Confucian scholar Li Zhi commits suicide while in a Chinese prison during the late Ming dynasty; he had taught that women were the intellectual equals of men and should be given equal opportunity in education; he was charged with spreading "dangerous ideas".
• Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.
• Publication of the play A Larum for London, or the Siedge of Antwerp in London.

Births

• February 14 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
• February 18 – Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1680)
• March 29 – John Lightfoot, English churchman and rabbinical scholar (d. 1675)
• April – William Lawes, English composer and musician (d. 1645)
• 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 26 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter (d. 1674)
• July 9 – Maeda Gen'i, Buddhist priest
• July 14 – Cardinal Mazarin, French statesman (d. 1661)
• July 15 – John Bradshaw, English judge and regicide (d. 1659)
• August 8 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
• August 31 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
• October 12 – William Chillingworth, English churchman (d. 1644)
• September 29 – Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, English military leader (d. 1668)
• November 22 – Elisabeth of France, queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
• November 30 – Otto von Guericke, German inventor and Mayor of Magdeburg (d. 1686)
• December 7 – Delano family, Plymouth Colony settler (d. 1681)
• December 18 – Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650)
• date unknown
  • 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)
  • Théodore Moret, Belgian 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)
• probable
  • Owen Feltham, English religious writer (d. 1668)
  • Richard Óge Martyn, Irish politician (d. 1648)
  • Salomon van Ruysdael, Dutch landscape painter (d. 1670)

Deaths

• February 13 – Alexander Nowell, English clergyman (b. 1507)
• February 19 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur, French soldier (b. 1558)
• March 11 – Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (b. c. 1550)
• March 22 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and graphical artist (b. 1557)
• May 27 – Robert Stuart, Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, infant son of King James I/VI
• August 12 – Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak, Mughal vizier and historian (b. 1551)
• August 23 – Bastianino, painter (b. c. 1536)
• September 25 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
• October – Thomas Morley, English composer (b. 1557)
• October 28 – John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1583)
• October 30 – Jean-Jacques Boissard, French antiquary and Latin poet (b. 1528)
• November 29 – Anthony Holborne, English composer (b. c. 1545)
• December 1 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
• December 29 – Jacopo Corsi, Italian composer (b. 1561)
• date unknown
  • Kim Myeong-won, Korean politician
  • Epifani Olives i Terès, Spanish politician
  • Jean Pithou, French lawyer and author (b. 1524)
  • Oda Ujiharu, Japanese warlord