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1601| c. 1601 | Italy [painting] | The Italian artist Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) paints The Conversion of Saint Paul. | | 1601 | Spain [plays] | The Spanish dramatist Lope Félix de Vega (Carpio) publishes the comedy El castigo del discreto/The Wise Man's Punishment. | | 1601 | England [ships and shipping] | Captain James Lancaster of the East India Company provides his crew with lemon juice and citrus fruits, avoiding an outbreak of scurvy, the deficiency disease that devastates the crews of other ships in his trade mission. | | 17 January 1601 | France, Spain, Savoy, Italy [treaties] | King Henry IV of France hurriedly ends the war in the duchy of Savoy, threatened by Spanish intervention; the Treaty of Lyons cedes Bresse, Bugey, and Gex to France, connecting it with Swiss Confederation. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, retains Saluzzo and the ‘Spanish Road’ from Italy to Flanders via Franche-Comté is secured by guarantees. | | 27 September 1601 | France [births and deaths] | Louis XIII the Just, King of France 1610–43 who, together with the Cardinal de Richelieu, greatly increased his country's political power, born in Fontainebleau, France (–1643). | | 24 October 1601 | Bohemia [births and deaths] | Tycho Brahe, leading Danish astronomer, teacher of Johannes Kepler, dies in Prague, Bohemia (54). | | 1 November 1601 | Japan [political events] | Tokugawa Ieyasu, the leader of the ruling regency council in Japan, enters Osaka Castle on the island of Honshu, Japan, and carries out a redistribution of fiefs to ensure that no other daimyo (warlord) can challenge his hegemony. He decides to make Edo (modern Tokyo) his capital. |
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