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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s
Years: 1598 1599 1600 1601 1602 - 1603 - 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608
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Events
- March 24 - King James VI of Scotland succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I as King James I of England. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain.
- November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great hall of Winchester Castle
- Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed III (1595-1603) to Ahmed I (1603-1617)
- Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from the emperor of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.
- Accademia dei Lincei founded
Births
- Denis Gaultier - A French lutenist and composer.
Deaths
- March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, Wales and Ireland.