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1606| c. 1606 | England [plays] | The comedy Volpone, or The Fox by the English dramatist Ben Jonson is first performed, in London, England, played by the King's Men. It is first published in 1607. | | 1606 | Pacific [statistics and demography] | The Australian aboriginal population is around 300,000. | | 1606–1657 | Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy, Hungary, Transylvania [treaties] | The 1606 peace treaties between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires lead to half a century of peace and stability in Hungary; no major campaigns are fought between the two, though frontier skirmishes and raids are endemic, and Transylvania develops into a rich regional power. | | 27 January 1606 | England [crime and punishment] | The English conspirator Guy Fawkes, a veteran of the Spanish Habsburg Army of Flanders, and his accomplices in the Catholic Gunpowder Plot to blow up King James I and Parliament, are executed for treason in London, England (Guy Fawkes, c. 36). | | March 1606 | Poland, Sweden [wars] | When King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland, at war with his uncle King Charles IX of Sweden, demands a large standing army and the funds to maintain it from the Polish Sejm (parliament), resistance crystallizes around a series of congresses held by Mikolaj Zebrzydowski, governor of Kraków. Eventually, he leads his supporters into armed rebellion and civil war. | | 17 May - 19 May 1606 | Russia [political events] | The Russian tsar, the ‘false Dmitri’, is murdered in another Moscow uprising, sponsored by his erstwhile backer Vasily Shuysky returning from a banishment promoted by Dmitri's Polish wife Marina Mniszek. Shuysky usurps the throne; he gains the support of his fellow boyars (nobles) by promising rule through a duma (parliament) and is proclaimed Tsar Vasily IV on 19 May. | | 15 July 1606 | United Netherlands [births and deaths] | Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch painter, often regarded as one of the greatest in history, born in Leiden, United Netherlands (–1669). | | 11 November 1606 | Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy, Ottoman Empire, Hungary [political events] | István Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania, succeeds in his mediation of a peace between the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I at the conference of Zsitvatörök; the Habsburg tribute to the Ottomans for Royal Hungary ceases after a final ‘gift’ of 200,000 gulden, and Ahmed recognizes the emperor as an equal. The Habsburgs abandon suzerainty over Transylvania to the Turks. |
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