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    Sir William More (30 January 1520 – 20 July 1600), of Loseley, Surrey, was the son of Sir Christopher More. The great house at Loseley Park was built for...
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  • 1536 William More (died 1549), MP for Shaftesbury William More (died 1600), MP for Reigate, Guildford, Grantham and Surrey William More (by 1511-68 or...
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  • 1600 (MDC) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1600th...
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    son Richard Polsted married a daughter of Sir William More (died 1600) of Loseley Park). In 1583 William Morgan settled Chilworth on the marriage of his...
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    Sir John Byron (c. 1526 – 1600) was an Elizabethan English nobleman, landowner, politician, and knight. He was also known as Little Sir John with the Great...
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    Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan. He did so on a trading ship...
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  • Sir William Hawkins (fl. c. 1600) was a representative of the English East India Company notable for being the commander of Hector, the first company ship...
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    university teaching. He is remembered today largely for his book De Magnete (1600). A unit of magnetomotive force, also known as magnetic potential, was named...
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  • father's death, his mother married Sir Henry Knyvet (d. 1547) and John Vaughan (died 1577). He was left a considerable estate by his grandfather Sir Richard Weston...
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    date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. He...
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  • James Clavell's historical novel fictionalizing key events and figures of 1600 Japan which took the Azuchi–Momoyama period to its end and did much to usher...
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  • The year 1600 in music involved some significant events. Start of Artusi–Monteverdi controversy, with publication of Artusi's treatise, L'Artusi Ovvero...
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    This is a list of countries by population in 1600. Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries...
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    Kempe continued to pursue his career as a performer. In February and March 1600, he undertook what he would later call his "Nine Days Wonder", in which he...
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    Frederick William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the Soldier King (German: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also Map all coordinates in "Category:Battles...
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  • distinguished from James Harrison) Eleanor Hunt, widow, 1600 (died in prison) Mrs Swithun Wells, widow, 1602 (died in prison) Henry Garnet, Jesuit, executed 1606...
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    John Mason (October 1600 – January 30, 1672) was an English-born settler, soldier, commander and Deputy Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Mason was best...
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  • John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (category 1600 deaths)
    John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie (c. 1577 – 5 August 1600), was a Scottish nobleman who died in mysterious circumstances, referred to as the "Gowrie Conspiracy"...
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    historian and statesman Friedrich Ancillon. When Queen Louise died in 1810 when Frederick William was 14, he saw it as a punishment from God and linked it...
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  • 1600s (decade) (redirect from 1600-1609)
    began on 1 January 1600, and ended on 31 December 1609. The term "sixteen-hundreds" could also mean the entire century from 1 January 1600 to 31 December...
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    Frederick William (German: Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia...
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    of Samuel More, who accompanied him and others as indentured servants: Mary More, age 4, assigned as a servant of William Brewster. She died sometime in...
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    William Claiborne also, spelled Cleyburne (c. 1600 – c. 1677) was an English pioneer, surveyor, and an early settler in the colonies/provinces of Virginia...
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  • Earl of Ross (category Noble titles created in 1600)
    Malcolm MacHeth (died 1168) With the crown Ferquhar (died 1249) William I (died 1274) William II (died 1323) Hugh, Earl of Ross (died 1333) (from whom...
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  • powerful Lord Toranaga. Anna Sawai as Toda Mariko (Hosokawa Gracia, 1563–1600): An intelligent highborn woman with strong loyalty to Toranaga. She is a...
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  • Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh) (category 1600 deaths)
    Mag Uidhir; died 4 March 1600) was Chief of the Name of the Irish clan Maguire and Lord of Fermanagh during the reign of Elizabeth I. He died in battle...
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    His parents were Colonel William Claiborne and Mary Leigh Claiborne. He was a descendant of Colonel William Claiborne (1600–1677), an English pioneer...
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    p. 438. Clark, C (2008). Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674023857. Johnson, Christopher...
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    His victories in the pitched battles at Turnhout (1597) and at Nieuwpoort (1600) were dependent on his innovation of cooperation between arms, with his cavalry...
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