1604 (MDCIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1604th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 604th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1604, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
August 28: The Treaty of London concludes the Anglo-Spanish War
1604 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1604
MDCIV
Ab urbe condita2357
Armenian calendar1053
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Assyrian calendar6354
Balinese saka calendar1525–1526
Bengali calendar1011
Berber calendar2554
English Regnal yearJa. 1 – 2 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar2148
Burmese calendar966
Byzantine calendar7112–7113
Chinese calendar癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4301 or 4094
    — to —
甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4302 or 4095
Coptic calendar1320–1321
Discordian calendar2770
Ethiopian calendar1596–1597
Hebrew calendar5364–5365
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1660–1661
 - Shaka Samvat1525–1526
 - Kali Yuga4704–4705
Holocene calendar11604
Igbo calendar604–605
Iranian calendar982–983
Islamic calendar1012–1013
Japanese calendarKeichō 9
(慶長9年)
Javanese calendar1524–1525
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3937
Minguo calendar308 before ROC
民前308年
Nanakshahi calendar136
Thai solar calendar2146–2147
Tibetan calendar阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
1730 or 1349 or 577
    — to —
阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1731 or 1350 or 578

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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  • April 9 – On the first day of the new year 966 M.E. on the Burmese calendar, King Nyaungyan Min of Burma makes a triumphant return to his capital at Inwa after his victory in the war against the principality of Mongnai (Monē), one of the Shan States between Burma and Siam
  • April 17Tsar Dmitry of Russia makes a public conversion to Roman Catholicism in order to attract the aid of Jesuits in his attempt to rule all of Russia.
  • April 18Maurice of Nassau assembles a combined army of 7,000 Dutch and 4,000 English soldiers to make an attack on the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium).
  • May 19 – Maurice of Nassau begins the Siege of Sluis, a port in the Spanish Netherlands, with 11,000 Dutch and English troops. Despite reinforcements from Spanish relief troops, the city surrenders after three months, with both sides having lost hundreds of casualties.
  • May 20
    • Five conspirators in England, led by Robert Catesby, who has invited Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy and Guy Fawkes, meet at the Duck and Drake Inn in London to make a plan for the assassination of King James.[5]
    • Peace discussions between England and Spain begin at Somerset House in London to end the Anglo-Spanish War after 19 years of fighting.
  • May 22 – English entrepreneur Charles Leigh and a crew of 46 arrive in South America at what is now the Oyapock River in French Guiana after traveling on the ship Olive Plant. The 35 men and boys who stay create a colonial settlement which they call Oliveleigh, and make a claim to all of the area.
  • June 9Thomas Percy, one of the English conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I, is appointed as one of the king's bodyguards by the Earl of Northumberland.
  • June 15Ottoman–Safavid War: General Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, commander of the eastern Ottoman Army, leads troops on a march from Constantinople to fight the Persia's Safavid Army in Armenia, but arrives too late to save the city of Yerevan.
  • JuneOttoman–Safavid War (1603–18): Shāh Abbas I of Persia's Safavid army captures the city of Yerevan from the Ottoman Empire after a siege. At this time the Shāh begins the expulsion of Armenians from Jolfa to New Julfa in his capital of Isfahan; more than 25,000 die during the exodus.

July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Religion

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Births

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Johann Rudolf Glauber
 
Tokugawa Iemitsu

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Probable

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Deaths

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Catherine de Bourbon
 
John Whitgift
 
Gaspar de Bono
 
Hamida Banu Begum
 
Ercole, Lord of Monaco

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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References

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  1. ^ Leeds Barroll, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), p. 83
  2. ^ Martin Butler, The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008), p. 63.
  3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 166–168. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot (Phoenix Press, 1996) pp. 41-42
  5. ^ C. Northcote Parkinson, Gunpowder Treason and Plot (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976) p. 48
  6. ^ "Toleration and Diplomacy: The Religious Issue in Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1603–1605", by Albert J. Loomie, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ((1963), p. 31
  7. ^ Pauline Croft, King James (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 62
  8. ^ George Chapman; Ben Jonson; John Marston (1979). Eastward Ho. Manchester University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-7190-1514-4.
  9. ^ "SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova". Archived from the original on January 31, 2010. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  10. ^ "Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant". NASA. Archived from the original on November 1, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  11. ^ Lever, J. W., ed. (1967) [1965]. "Measure for Measure". The Arden Shakespeare, second series. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. xxxi. doi:10.5040/9781408160237.00000030. ISBN 978-1-9034-3644-8 – via Drama Online Library. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ^ The exact date is unknown, but a surviving account book for the year ended September 30 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.
  13. ^ Burns, D. Thorburn; Müller, R. Klaus; Salzer, Reiner; Werner, Gerhard (2014). Important Figures of Analytical Chemistry from Germany in Brief Biographies: From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Springer. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-319-12151-2.
  14. ^ "Charles III (or IV) | duke of Lorraine [1604–1675]". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  15. ^ John Morehen (January 1, 2000). Ricercari d'intavolatura d'organo: 1567. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-89579-476-5.
  16. ^ Glanmor Williams. "Morgan, William (c.1545-1604)". Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig (in Welsh). Retrieved July 4, 2021.