1606

1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1606th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 606th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1606, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 16th century17th century18th century
Decades: 1570s  1580s  1590s 1600s 1610s  1620s  1630s
Years: 1603 1604 160516061607 1608 1609
1606 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1606
MDCVI
Ab urbe condita2359
Armenian calendar1055
ԹՎ ՌԾԵ
Assyrian calendar6356
Balinese saka calendar1527–1528
Bengali calendar1013
Berber calendar2556
English Regnal year3 Ja. 1  4 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2150
Burmese calendar968
Byzantine calendar7114–7115
Chinese calendar乙巳(Wood Snake)
4302 or 4242
     to 
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4303 or 4243
Coptic calendar1322–1323
Discordian calendar2772
Ethiopian calendar1598–1599
Hebrew calendar5366–5367
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1662–1663
 - Shaka Samvat1527–1528
 - Kali Yuga4706–4707
Holocene calendar11606
Igbo calendar606–607
Iranian calendar984–985
Islamic calendar1014–1015
Japanese calendarKeichō 11
(慶長11年)
Javanese calendar1526–1527
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3939
Minguo calendar306 before ROC
民前306年
Nanakshahi calendar138
Thai solar calendar2148–2149
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1732 or 1351 or 579
     to 
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
1733 or 1352 or 580

Births

  • February 12John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
  • March 3Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
  • May 23Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
  • May 25Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
  • June 6Pierre Corneille, French writer (died 1684)
  • June 16Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
  • June 19James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
  • July 15Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
  • September 22Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
  • November 12Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (died 1673)
  • Richard Busby, English clergyman (died 1695)
  • Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
  • Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)
  • William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
  • Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
  • Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
  • Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
  • Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
  • John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
  • Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
  • Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
  • Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1633)
  • Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)
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