1606

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Years:	1603 1604 1605 - 1606 - 1607 1608 1609

1606 in topic:
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Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
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Year 1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1606

January 27 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins.
January 31 - Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
February 26 - Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European.
April 12 - The Union Flag is adopted as the national flag of Great Britain.
May 17 - Supporters of Vasili Shuisky invade the Kremlin and kill Premier Dmitri.#

Storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Britain.
The Treaty of Zsitva-Torok ends the Long War between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans in Hungary. The independence of Transylvania is recognized by both sides and Austria's annual tribute to the Ottoman Empire is abolished.
First Union Flag created.
The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, describes Latvian mythology.
The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum) is founded in Bratislava.

January 30
- Everard Digby, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1578)
- Robert Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1565)
January 31
- Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1570)
- Ambrose Rokewood, English conspirator (executed)
- Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (executed) (b. 1571)
March 16 - Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey, Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Mexico (b. 1540)
March 23
- Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
- Saint Turibius de Mongrovejo, Spanish Grand Inquisitioner and missionary Archbishop of Lima (b. 1538)
March 25 - François de Bar, French scholar (b. 1538)
April 3 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
May 3 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
May 17 - False Dmitriy I, pretender to the Russian throne
September 2 - Carel van Mander, Dutch painter and poet (b. 1548)
October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
November 13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
November 20 - (burial date) John Lyly, English writer (b. 1553)
date unknown
- Leonhard Lechner, German composer and music editor (b. 1553)
- Akaza Naoyasu, Japanese nobleman
- Nicolaus Taurellus, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1547)