Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1606
Birthdays
- February 10 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
- February 12 - John Winthrop, the Younger
- March 3 - Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)
- May 23 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
- May 25 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
- June 6 - Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1684)
- June 16 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall
- June 19 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
- July 15 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
- August 18 - Maria Anna of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress and Queen of Hungary (d. 1646)
- September 22 - Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645)
- November 12 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)
Deaths
- January 30 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
- January 31 - Guy Fawkes,
- January 31 - Ambrose Rokewood,
- January 31 - Thomas Wintour,
- March 23 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
- April 3 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon
- May 3 - Henry Garnet, English Jesuit (executed) (b. 1555)
- October 5 - Philippe Desportes, French poet (b. 1546)
- November 12 - St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- November 13 - Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
Events
- January 27 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
- January 31 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
- April 10 - The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
- April 12 - The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
- August 7 - The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
- December 19 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
- December 20 - The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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