1606

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years:	1603 1604 1605 – 1606 – 1607 1608 1609

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1606 Media

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  August 16: The Battle of Cape Rachado is fought between Portugal and the Dutch East India Company

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  • Edmund Waller, by John Riley (died 1691). See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have been confirmed as author died before 1939 according to the official death date listed by the NPG.
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  Gravure représentant Bulwer par Faithorne, réalisée vers 1653 pour le livre Anthropometamorphosis.

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  Painting of Wouter van Twiller

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  JulienMaunoir

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  • Hermann Conring (1606–1681), German academic
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  Jeanne Mance, part of Maisonneuve Monument, Louis-Philippe Hébert's work, Place d'Armes, Montreal

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  RembrandtvanRijnSelfPortraitGoogleArtProject

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  Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania

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.

Births

• February 12 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
• March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
• May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
• May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
• June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French writer (died 1684)
• June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
• June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
• July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
• September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
• November 12 – Jeanne 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)