Editing 1604 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The earliest recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' takes place at [[Hampton Court]]<ref>Leeds Barroll, ''Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), p. 83</ref> prior to the main presentation, ''[[The Masque of Indian and China Knights]]'', which is performed by courtiers of King James.<ref>Martin Butler, ''The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture'' (Cambridge, 2008), p. 63.</ref> 
* [[January 14]] &ndash; The [[Hampton Court Conference]] is held between [[James I of England]], the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[bishop]]s and representatives of the [[Puritan]]s. Work begins on the [[Authorized King James Version]] of the [[Bible]]<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=166–168|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> and revision of the [[Book of Common Prayer]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[James VI and I|King James of England]] denounces the Roman Catholic Church after learning from one of his spies, [[Anthony Standen (spy)|Sir Anthony Standen]], that Queen Anne has been sent a rosary from the [[Pope]].
* [[February 17]] &ndash; King James issues an order for all Jesuits and all Roman Catholic priests to leave his kingdom by March 19.<ref>Antonia Fraser, ''The Gunpowder Plot'' (Phoenix Press, 1996) pp. 41-42</ref>
* [[February 24]] &ndash; At [[Linköping]] in [[Sweden]], the [[Riksdag]] declares that [[Sigismund III Vasa|Sigismund]], Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, who has been absent for five years, has effectively abdicated as King of Sweden, and recognizes [[Charles IX of Sweden|Karl, Duke of Södermanland]], as the new monarch.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; More than seven months after [[Coronation of James I and Anne|their July 25, 1603 coronation]], [[James VI & I|King James I]] and [[Anne of Denmark|Anne, Queen consort]] make the traditional [[Royal Entry]] to [[London]]. The ceremonies have been postponed from 1603 because of the ongoing plague.
* [[March 19]] &ndash; King James opens his first parliamentary session as King of England. In his opening speech to the "[[Blessed Parliament]]", the King makes clear that he wants to bring a legal union between England and Scotland and that he does not wish to be "a husband to two wives." The House of Commons refuses to agree with him on the unification of the crown or on the funding that the King requests.
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Charles IX of Sweden|Karl IX]] begins his reign as [[King of Sweden]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 9]] &ndash; On the first day of the new year 966 M.E. on the Burmese calendar, King [[Nyaungyan Min]] of [[Myanmar|Burma]] makes a triumphant return to his capital at [[Inwa]] after his victory in the war against the principality of [[Mongnai State|Mongnai]] (Monē), one of the [[Shan States]] between Burma and [[Thailand|Siam]]
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[False Dmitry I|Tsar Dmitry of Russia]] makes a public conversion to Roman Catholicism in order to attract the aid of Jesuits in his attempt to rule all of Russia.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; [[Maurice of Nassau]] assembles a combined army of 7,000 Dutch and 4,000 English soldiers to make an attack on the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium). 
* [[May 19]] &ndash; Maurice of Nassau begins the [[Siege of Sluis (1604)|Siege of Sluis]], a port in the Spanish Netherlands, with 11,000 Dutch and English troops. Despite reinforcements from Spanish relief troops, the city surrenders after three months, with both sides having lost hundreds of casualties. 
* [[May 20]]
**Five conspirators in England, led by [[Robert Catesby]], who has invited Thomas Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy and Guy Fawkes, meet at the Duck and Drake Inn in London to make a plan for the assassination of King James.<ref>C. Northcote Parkinson, ''Gunpowder Treason and Plot'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976) p. 48</ref>
**Peace discussions between England and Spain begin at Somerset House in London to end the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]] after 19 years of fighting.
* [[May 22]] &ndash; English entrepreneur [[Oyapoc|Charles Leigh]] and a crew of 46 arrive in South America at what is now the [[Oyapock]] River in [[French Guiana]] after traveling on the ship ''Olive Plant''. The 35 men and boys who stay create a colonial settlement which they call Oliveleigh, and make a claim to all of the area.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Percy (Gunpowder Plot)|Thomas Percy]], one of the English conspirators in the [[Gunpowder Plot]] to assassinate King James I, is appointed as one of the king's bodyguards by the Earl of Northumberland.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Safavid War]]: General [[Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha]], commander of the eastern Ottoman Army, leads troops on a march from Constantinople to fight the [[Persia]]'s [[Safavid]] Army in Armenia, but arrives too late to save the city of [[Yerevan]]. 
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18)]]: Shāh [[Abbas I of Persia]]'s [[Safavid dynasty|Safavid]] army captures the city of [[Yerevan]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]] after a siege. At this time the Shāh begins the expulsion of [[Armenians]] from [[Jolfa, Iran (city)|Jolfa]] to [[New Julfa]] in his capital of [[Isfahan]]; more than 25,000 die during the exodus.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; The [[Jesuits etc. Act 1603|Jesuits Act 1603]] (officially "An Act for the due execution of the Statutes against Jesuits, seminary Priests and recusants") is given royal assent by King James I of England to create penalties against Jesuits and Catholics who send their children abroad to Catholic colleges.<ref>"Toleration and Diplomacy: The Religious Issue in Anglo-Spanish Relations, 1603–1605", by Albert J. Loomie, ''Transactions of the American Philosophical Society'' ((1963), p. 31</ref>
* [[July 7]]
**On 11 Safar 1013 AH in the Islamic calendar, the decree of Ottoman Sultan [[Ahmed I]] is read aloud in the [[Masjid al-Haram|Great Mosque of Mecca]], declaring that [[Idris ibn Hasan]] has been proclaimed the new [[Sharif of Mecca]], in partnership with Idris's brother [[Fuhayd ibn Hasan]] and Idris and Fuhayd's nephew, [[Muhsin ibn Husayn]]
**King James angrily dismisses the English parliament after failing to get full financial subsidies. He tells the members in his closing speech, "I am not of such a stock as to praise fools."<ref>Pauline Croft, ''King James'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 62</ref>
* [[July 16]] &ndash; The last of the 18 sessions of the English and Spanish peace conference is held at the [[Somerset House#Old Somerset House|Old Somerset House]] in [[London]], with the parties reaching an agreement on terms of a treaty.
* [[July 22]] &ndash; King James begins fundraising for his project for [[King James Version|an accurate translation of the Holy Bible into English]], asking [[Richard Bancroft]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], to contact all Anglican churches for donations. 
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha|Sokolluzade Mehmed Pasha]] becomes the new [[List of Ottoman Grand Viziers#Absolute monarchy (1320–1839)|Ottoman Grand Vizier]], replacing the late [[Yavuz Ali Pasha]]
* [[August 18]] &ndash; England concludes the [[Treaty of London (1604)|Treaty of London]] with Spain, ending the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)]], an intermittent conflict within the [[Eighty Years' War]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=George Chapman|author2=Ben Jonson|author3=John Marston|title=Eastward Ho|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTxRAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-1514-4|page=18|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 19]] &ndash; The Dutch [[Siege of Sluis (1604)|siege of Sluis]] in the Spanish Netherlands ends after three months, a day after relief troops commanded by General [[Ambrogio Spinola]] retreat. At least 2,000 of the members of the Spanish garrison inside had been killed or incapacitated by disease and famine. Sluis becomes part of the Netherlands afterward.
* [[September 1]] &ndash; [[Sri]] ''[[Guru Granth Sahib]]'', the religious text of [[Sikhism]], whose compilation by [[Guru Arjan]] was completed on August 29, is installed at [[Harmandir Sahib]] in [[Amritsar]].
* [[September 20]] &ndash; After a bloody [[Siege of Ostend|three-year siege]]. [[Ostend]] is finally captured by [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] forces under [[Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases|Ambrogio Spinola]]

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Za Dengel]], [[Emperor]] of [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]], is killed in battle with the forces of Za Sellase, who restores his cousin [[Yaqob]] to the throne.
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Kepler's Supernova]] (SN 1604) is first observed from the northern parts of the [[Italian Peninsula]]. Beginning on October 17, [[Johannes Kepler]] begins a year's observation of it from [[Prague]]. There won't be another supernova visible to the "naked-eye" until [[1987]]. {{As of|2023}}, this is the last supernova to be observed in the [[Milky Way]].<ref>{{cite web|title=SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova|url=http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html|access-date=2011-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html |archive-date=January 31, 2010<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566:Three-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |title=Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |archive-date=November 1, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; The first recorded performance of [[William Shakespeare]]'s tragedy, ''[[Othello]]'', takes place at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] in London.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; On the evening of [[Saint Stephen's Day]]), the first recorded performance of Shakespeare's "[[Shakespearean problem play|problem play]]" ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' takes place, before King [[James I of England]] in the banquet hall of the Palace of Whitehall.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shakespeare|first=William|chapter=Measure for Measure |display-authors=0|editor-last=Lever|editor-first=J. W.|series=[[The Arden Shakespeare]], second series|year=1967 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|orig-year=1965|isbn=978-1-9034-3644-8|doi=10.5040/9781408160237.00000030|page=xxxi|via=[[Drama Online Library]]|ref={{harvid|Lever|2015}}|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/measureformeasur00will}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; The [[1604 Quanzhou earthquake]], with an estimated 8.1 magnitude, shakes the [[Taiwan Strait]] leaving several dead.

=== Date unknown ===
* France begins settling [[Acadia]], first successful [[Kingdom of France|French]] North American [[colony]].
* Before [[1 October]], [[Huntingdon Beaumont]] completes the [[Wollaton Wagonway]], built to transport [[coal]] from the mines at [[Strelley]] to [[Wollaton]] just west of [[Nottingham]], England, the world's oldest [[wagonway]] with provenance.<ref>The exact date is unknown, but a surviving account book for the year ended [[September 30]] 1604 proves it was built within the preceding 12 months.</ref>
* The ''[[Table Alphabeticall]]'', the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, is published.
* First publication of [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s play ''[[The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus]]'', in London.
* [[Lancelot de Casteau]]'s ''L'Ouverture de cuisine'' published in [[Liège]], including the first printed recipe for [[choux pastry]].

===Religion===
* According to legend, the vault of [[Christian Rosenkreuz]] is discovered.
* The [[Papacy]] is expected to fall this year by [[Tobias Hess]] and [[Simon Studion]] according to their correspondence in [[1597]].</onlyinclude>