History
1606
General
Population: 541 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Thomas Dekker (seven deadly sins of London), Ben Johnson Volpone, John Marston (comedy),
William Shakespeare Anthony and Cleopatra and Macbeth, Johann Arndt (regarding Christianity), Joseph Justus Scaliger (ancient chronology)
- Science: Galileo invents proportional compass
- Deaths: Composer Guillaume Costley, Novelist John Lulu, Guy Fawkes and gunpowder plotters, Dramatist John Lyly,
Asia
- General: Luis Vaez de Torres from Portugal/Spain sails around New Guinea and reaches straits of Torres in Australia
Europe
- England: Flood in Severn Valley
Guy Fawkles and fellow conspirators sentenced to death
King James I orders national flag
Founding of Society of Apothecaries and Grociers and Fruiterers' Company in London
English House of Commons reluctant to levy taxes - raised by King James
Gunpowder plotters executed
Plymouth and London companies given charters
Laws passed in England against Roman Catholics
- France: Extensive program of road building started
- Holy Roman Empire: Peace treaty between Turks and Austrians signed at Zsitva-Torok
Austria abandons Transylvania but ceases to pay tribute to Turkey
- Italian States: First open-air opera in Rome
- Russia: "False Dmitri" assassinated by boyar Basili Shuisky – Shuisky elected Czar to 1610
Cossack and peasant uprisings to 1608 after pretenders try to gain throne
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Peace treaty between Turks and Austrians signed at Zsitva-Torok
Transylvania passes to Ottoman rule
Pacific
- General: Luis Vaez de Torres from Portugal/Spain sails around New Guinea and reaches straits of Torres in Australia
Dutch Navigator Willem Jansz discovers Australia
General
- First recorded birth of a black child in US region - traveling with Spanish
South
- Virginia: Virginia company of London granted royal charter and sends 120 colonists
Severe drought to 1612 killing many settlers