June 25 – In England, a fire destroys much of the town of
North Walsham,
Norfolk, burning down 118 homes, 70 shops, and most of the stalls in the
market square. The fire is traced to the home of one person who tries to flee town after the blaze begins. Many of the persons left homeless are given shelter at the
St Nicholas Church.
September 18 – The
Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General
Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.
September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan.[7] The Liefde, a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.
November 7 –
Emperor Rudolf II grants an audience in
Prague to Persian diplomats Husayn 'Ali Beg and Anthony Shirley, and present the offer of Persia's King
Abbas the Great to supply weapons to the Empire in their fight against the Ottomans.[9][10]
^Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen Connellan, ed. by Michael O'Clery (Irish Genealogical Foundation, 2003) p. 666
^
ab("Dispatch of 23rd October, 1600: On the 20th the two ambassadors from Persia made their entry here; one is an Englishman called, as I understand, he is the principal Ambassador, and the other is a Persian called Assan Halevech; there are about twenty or twenty-five persons with them...") contemporary account, quoted in Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure, ed by Edward D. Ross (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005) p. 23-24
^("Dispatch of November 8th, 1600: "Yesterday these Ambassadors from the King of Persia had had an audience. The Englishman spoke in Spanish, and the substance of that King's offer to His Imperial Majesty was that he would arm against the Turk...")
June 25 – In England, a fire destroys much of the town of
North Walsham,
Norfolk, burning down 118 homes, 70 shops, and most of the stalls in the
market square. The fire is traced to the home of one person who tries to flee town after the blaze begins. Many of the persons left homeless are given shelter at the
St Nicholas Church.
September 18 – The
Battle of Mirăslău takes place within Transylvania as Hungarian troops, backed by the Holy Roman Empire, triumph over the Principality of Wallachia, backed by Poland. Hungarian General
Giorgio Basta brings 30,000 men against the 22,000 commanded by Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave. The Wallachians sustain more than 5,000 dead and wounded.
September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan.[7] The Liefde, a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after drifting more than six months before arriving in Japan on April 19, 1601.
November 7 –
Emperor Rudolf II grants an audience in
Prague to Persian diplomats Husayn 'Ali Beg and Anthony Shirley, and present the offer of Persia's King
Abbas the Great to supply weapons to the Empire in their fight against the Ottomans.[9][10]
^Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen Connellan, ed. by Michael O'Clery (Irish Genealogical Foundation, 2003) p. 666
^
ab("Dispatch of 23rd October, 1600: On the 20th the two ambassadors from Persia made their entry here; one is an Englishman called, as I understand, he is the principal Ambassador, and the other is a Persian called Assan Halevech; there are about twenty or twenty-five persons with them...") contemporary account, quoted in Sir Anthony Sherley and His Persian Adventure, ed by Edward D. Ross (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005) p. 23-24
^("Dispatch of November 8th, 1600: "Yesterday these Ambassadors from the King of Persia had had an audience. The Englishman spoke in Spanish, and the substance of that King's offer to His Imperial Majesty was that he would arm against the Turk...")