What happened in 1604?
30 recorded events in 1604, including 15 in people, 4 in wars & conflicts and 4 in architecture & engineering.
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Wars & Conflicts 4
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Siege of Ostend
1604 three-year siege during the Eighty Years' War
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Battle of Weissenstein
1604 battle of the Polish–Swedish War
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Siege of Sluis
1604 siege and conquest of Sluis by Dutch rebel general Maurice of Nassau
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Battle of Novhorod-Siverskyi
1604 battle
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Politics & Government 1
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Treaty of London
Treaty signed in London, England on 18 August OS (28 August NS) 1604
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People 15
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John Whitgift died
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to 1604
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Filippo Pigafetta died
Italian explorer and mathematician (1533-1604)
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Francesco Barozzi died
Italian mathematician (1537-1604)
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John Chamber died
British astronomer (1546-1604)
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Claudio Merulo died
Italian organist and composer
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Isabella Andreini died
Italian actress and writer
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John Juvenal Ancina died
Italian Oratorian and bishop (1545-1604)
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Osman II born
Born in Istanbul. 16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618–1622).
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Baltasar Gracián born
Born in Belmonte de Gracián. Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658).
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John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen born
Born in Dillenburg. Dutch soldier and administrator (1604–1679).
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İslâm III Giray born
Born in Bakhchysarai. Khan of Crimea.
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Menasseh Ben Israel born
Born in La Rochelle. Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher.
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Charles IV of Lorraine born
Born in Nancy. Duke of Lorraine and Bar (1604-1675).
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Bernard of Saxe-Weimar born
Born in Weimar. German general.
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Jakob Balde born
Born in Ensisheim. German scholar (1604-1668).
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Religion & Belief Systems 3
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Juma Mosque in Ordubad
Mosque in Ordubad, Azerbaijan
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St. Pankratius
Filial church in Oberrohr, Ursberg, Germany
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Cristo Risorto
Oratory in Savona, Italy
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Disasters & Pandemics 2
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1604 Arica earthquake
Earthquake in South America
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1604 Quanzhou earthquake
Magnitude 8 earthquake off Fujian, China
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Architecture & Engineering 4
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Duomo Nuovo
Summer cathedral of Brescia, Italy
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Church of St. Casimir, Vilnius
Church
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Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, Naples
Church
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Santa Maria del Quartiere
Church building in Parma, Italy
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Empires & Countries 1
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Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg dissolved
Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg ceased to exist, having been centered at Marburg.
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