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    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...
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    investigations. The origins of the earlier flag of Great Britain date from 1606. King James VI of Scotland had inherited the English and Irish thrones in...
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    Bihać. In Turkey, it is called the Ottoman–Austrian War of 1593–1606 (Turkish: 1593-1606 Osmanlı-Avusturya Savaşı). In the series of Ottoman wars in Europe...
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  • Events in the year 1606 in India. Dutch blockade of Goa. A sixth suffragan See to Goa was established at San Thome, Mylapore, near the modern Madras, and...
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    in pede Serpentarii ("On the new star in Ophiuchus's foot", Prague 1606). In 1606, Delle Colombe published Discourse of Lodovico delle Colombe in which...
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    The siege of Malacca of 1606 was a military engagement between a Dutch force commanded by Cornelis Matelief and the Portuguese commander André Furtado...
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  • France et la régence d'Alger au XVII siècle. Les deux canons de Simon Dansa (1606_1628). A. Jourdan (Alger). p. 46. Oppenheim, Michael, ed. (1902). The naval...
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    Sophia Stuart (22 June 1606 – 23 June 1606) was the fourth daughter and last of nine children of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark. Anne of Denmark was...
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    Major-General Thomas Harrison, baptised 16 July 1616, executed 13 October 1660, was a prominent member of the radical religious sect known as the Fifth...
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    Sir George Villiers (c. 1544 – 4 January 1606) was an English knight and country gentleman. He was a High Sheriff of Leicestershire for the year 1591,...
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    The European exploration of Australia first began in February 1606, when Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula and on October that...
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    The year 1606 in science and technology involved some significant events. The cryptographic text Steganographia, written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499/1500...
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  • 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 1610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 … In literature 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 1609 Art Archaeology...
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    Carmelite church of Santa Maria della Scala, was rejected by the Carmelites in 1606. Caravaggio's contemporary Giulio Mancini records that it was rejected because...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1606. January? – Sir Thomas Craig becomes church procurator. February... – John...
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  • brother Robert Ibgrave. The lands return to the crown for want of heirs and in 1606, James VI and I, granted them to Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss. The transaction...
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  • under Muhammad Parviz and Asaf Khan III. Shortly after his accession in 1606, Jahangir sent an army of 20,000 cavalry to attack Mewar. Parviz was only...
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    exploration. The Dutch were the first known Europeans to reach Australia, in 1606. British colonisation began in 1788 with the establishment of the penal colony...
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    The Hulse–Taylor pulsar (known as PSR B1913+16, PSR J1915+1606 or PSR 1913+16) is a binary star system composed of a neutron star and a pulsar which orbit...
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  • am doing [now]. You must build the said fortress no matter what. In May 1606, the Portuguese fleet left Goa with a ship of 15 or 16 full-rigged ships...
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    Count Corfits Ulfeldt (10 July 1606 – 20 February 1664) was a Danish statesman, and considered one of the most notorious traitors in Danish history. Ulfeldt...
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    Maria Anna of Spain (18 August 1606 – 13 May 1646) was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by her marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman...
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    (now Farmington Road) was bought by the town to be the school building. In 1606 an Act of Parliament (4 Jas. 1. c. 7) vested its patronage and rights of...
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  • Events from the year 1606 in art. May 29 – Caravaggio kills a young man in a brawl in Rome. Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus Caravaggio, Saint Francis in Prayer...
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  • HD 1606 is a single star in the northern constellation of Andromeda, positioned a few degrees to the northeast of the bright star Alpheratz. It has a blue-white...
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    Guy Fawkes (category 1606 deaths)
    Guy Fawkes (/fɔːks/; 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes while fighting for the Spanish, was a member of a group of provincial...
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  • (1556?–1623) Spillbergen – Jacob Quaeckernaeck (?–1606) Father Dell'Aqua – Alessandro Valignano (1539–1606) Brother Michael – Miguel Chijiwa (1569?–1633)...
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    Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, visited the Solomons in 1606. In June 1893, Captain Herbert Gibson of HMS Curacoa, declared the southern...
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    Fernandes de Queirós, who arrived on the largest island, Espíritu Santo, in 1606. Queirós claimed the archipelago for Spain, as part of the colonial Spanish...
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    James Hamilton was created Lord Abercorn on 5 April 1603, then on 10 July 1606 he was made Earl of Abercorn and Lord of Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell...
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