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| 1600, Feb. 2: | The scholar and librarian Gabriel Naudé is born at Paris. |  |
| 1600, Feb. 17: | The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake on the Campo dei Fiori in Rome. | |
| 1600, Jul. 2: | A Dutch army under Prince Maurice defeats a Spanish force in the Battle of Nieuwpoort, but the Dutch are not able to consolidate their success. | |
| 1600, Dec. 31: | The British East India Company is founded. | |
William Gilbert, De magnete, London: Peter Short. |
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Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, De formato foetu, Venice: Franciscus
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| 1601, Jul. 30: | Prince Maurice captures the strategic town of Rheinburg, the 'whore of war'. |  |
| 1601, Aug. 17: | The mathematician Pierre de Fermat is born at Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. | |
| 1601, Aug. 27: | The explorer Olivier van Noort completes the first Dutch circumnavigation. | |
| 1601, Oct. 24: | The astronomer Tycho Brahe dies in Prague, Bohemia. | |
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Hugo Grotius, Adamus exul, The Hague: A. Henrici. |
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Carolus Clusius, Rariorvm plantarvm historia, Antwerp: Johannes Moretus.
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| 1602, Feb. 6: | Baptism of Franciscus van den Enden at the St Jacobs church of Antwerp. |  |
| 1602, May 2: | The Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher is born at Giesa, Germany. | |
| 1602, Mar. 20: | The VOC, the Dutch East India Company, is founded. | |
| 1602, Sep. 18: | The Spanish surrender Grave to Prince Maurice. | |
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Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata, Prague: s.n.
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Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe vande voyagie om den geheelen werelt
cloot, Rotterdam & Amsterdam: J. van Waesberghen & C. Claessz.
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| 1603, Jan. 8: | The philosopher Tommaso Campanella is sentenced to lifelong imprisonment by the Spanish authorities, for having taken part in an attempt to free Naples from Spanish rule. |  |
| 1603, Mar. 24: | Elizabeth the Great dies at Richmond-upon-Thames and is succeeded by James I (James VI of Scotland). | |
| 1603, Jul. 11: | The alchemist and privateer Kenelm Digby is born in Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire, England. | |
| 1603, Aug. 17: | The Accademia dei Lincei is founded at Rome. | |
| 1603, Nov. 3: | The theologian Adam Boreel is born at Middelburg. | |
| 1603, Dec. 13: | The mathematician Franciscus Vieta dies at Paris. | |
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Johann Bayer, Uranometria, Augsburg: Christophorus Mangus. |
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Johannes Althusius, Politica, methodice digesta et exemplis sacris et
profanis illustrata, Herborn: Corvinus. |
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| 1604, Mar. 6: | Charles IX is recognized as King of Sweden. |  |
| 1604, Mar. 10: | The alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber is born at Karlstadt am Main, Germany. | |
| 1604, Aug. 11: | James I and Philip III sign the Treaty of London, ending sixteen years of war between England and Spain. | |
| 1604, Aug. 20: | Prince Maurice captures Sluis. | |
| 1604, Sep. 22: | After a siege of some three years, Spanish troops under Ambrogio Spinola conquer Ostend. | |
| 1604, Oct. 8: | One of Johannes Kepler's assistents first sights a supernova, still known as 'Kepler's Nova' or 'Kepler's Star'. | |
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Karel van Mander, Het schilder-boeck, Haarlem: Passchier van Wesbusch. |
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| 1605, Feb. 25: | The Portuguese surrender Ambon to the Dutch. |  |
| 1605, Mar. 5: | Pope Clemens VIII dies at Rome. | |
| 1605, Apr. 1: | Pope Leo XI is elected. | |
| 1605, Apr. 27: | Pope Leo XI dies at Rome. | |
| 1605, May 16: | Pope Paul V is elected. | |
| 1605, Aug.: | The Dutch lose Oldenzaal and Lingen to Ambrogio Spinola. | |
| 1605, Oct. 30: | Baptism of Martinus van den Enden at the St Jacobs church in Antwerp. | |
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Justus Lipsius, Monita et exempla politica, Antwerp: Jan Moretus. |
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Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, London: Henry Tomes. |
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Leonerdus Lessius, De ivstitia et ivre cæterisque virtutibus cardinalibus
libri, Leuven: Joannes Masius. |
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| 1606, Mar. 23: | The philosopher Justus Lipsius dies at Leuven. |  |
| 1606, Apr. 10: | The English James I signs the charter for the Virginia Company. | |
| 1606, Summer: | The Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola conquers Grol, Bredevoort and Lochem. | |
| 1606, Jul. 15: | The painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is born at Leiden. | |
| 1606, Autumn: | Prince Maurice is able to recapture Lochem, but Spinola captures Rheinberg, the 'whore of war'. | |
| 1606, Sep. 11: | The painter and author Karel van Mander dies at Amsterdam. | |
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Johannes Kepler, De stella nova, Prague: Paulus Sessius. |
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| 1607, Mar. 15: | Charles IX of Sweden is crowned at the Cathedral of Uppsala. |  |
| 1607, Mar. 24: | The Dutch naval commander Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter is born at Vlissingen. | |
| 1607, Apr. 25: | A Dutch fleet under Jacob van Heemskerck defeats a Spanish fleet under D'Avila in the Battle of Gibraltar, but Van Heemskerck is killed. | |
| 1607, May 14: | Colonists of the Virginia Company reach the site where Jamestown is founded. | |
| 1607, Jul. 20: | The historian and jurist Paulus Merula dies at Rostock, a free Hanseatic city (present Germany). | |
| 1607, Oct. 25: | The painter Jan Lievens is born at Leiden. | |
| 1607, Nov. 5: | The scholar Anna Maria van Schurman is born at Cologne, in the archbishopric Cologne, present Germany. | |
| 1607, Nov. 19: | The painter Erasmus Quellinus the Younger is born at Antwerp. | |
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Paulus Merula, Vita Des. Erasmi Roterodami, Leiden: T. Basson. |
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| 1608, Jan. 28: | The astronomer, biologist and mathematician Giovanni Alfonso Borelli is born at Naples, then part of the Spanish empire. |  |
| 1608, Jul. 3: | The French explorer Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec, Canada. | |
| 1608, Oct. 2: | The Dutch States General discuss Hans Lipperhey's application for a patent on a telescope. | |
| 1608, Oct. 15: | The scientist Evangelista Torricelli is born at Faenza, Italy. | |
| 1608, Oct. 19: | The Jesuit scholar Martinus Antonius del Rio dies at Leuven. | |
| 1608, Oct. 30: | The Calvinist theologian Jacobus Arminius presents a statement to the States of Holland in which he tries to clarify his views on Predestination. | |
| 1608, Dec.: | The geographer, mathematician and occultist John Dee dies in extreme poverty at Mortlake, England. | |
| 1608, Dec. 12: | The Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus presents a statement to the States of Holland, in which he accuses his colleague Arminius of being an adherent of Pelagius and of the Jesuits. | |
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Carolus Scribani, Iusti Lipsi defensio postuma, Antwerp: Johannes
Moretus. |
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Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata, Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussen. |
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Daniel Heinsius, Emblemata amatoria, Amsterdam: D. Pietersz . |
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Simon Stevin, Wisconstige gedachtenissen, Leiden: Jan Bouwensz. |
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Willem Jansz Blaeu, Het licht der zee-vaert, Amsterdam: Willem Jansz
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| 1609, Jan. 21: | The philologist and historian Joseph Justus Scaliger dies at Leiden. |  |
| 1609, Jan. 31: | The Amsterdam Wisselbank is founded. | |
| 1609, Apr. 4: | The botanist Carolus Clusius dies at Leiden. | |
| 1609, Apr. 9: | The Twelve Years Truce is signed at Antwerp, creating a pause in the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Dutch Republic. | |
| 1609, Aug. 30: | The sculptor Artus Quellinus is baptized at Antwerp. | |
| 1609, Sep. 12: | The English explorer Henry Hudson, working for the Dutch VOC, reaches the Hudson River with his ship, the Halve Maen, and thus lays the foundations for New Netherland. | |
| 1609, Oct. 19: | The Calvinist theologian Jacobus Arminius dies at Leiden. | |
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Johannes Kepler, Astronomia nova, s.l. [Heidelberg]: s.n. |
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Hugo Grotius, Mare liberum, Leiden: Louis Elzevier. |
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