1606

1606 (MDCVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1606th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 606th year of the 2nd millennium, the 6th year of the 17th century, and the 7th year of the 1600s decade. As of the start of 1606, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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 other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1606 MDCVI
Ab urbe condita	2359
Armenian calendar	1055 ԹՎ ՌԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	6356
Balinese saka calendar	1527–1528
Bengali calendar	1013
Berber calendar	2556
English Regnal year	3 Ja. 1 – 4 Ja. 1
Buddhist calendar	2150
Burmese calendar	968
Byzantine calendar	7114–7115
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4302 or 4242     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4303 or 4243
Coptic calendar	1322–1323
Discordian calendar	2772
Ethiopian calendar	1598–1599
Hebrew calendar	5366–5367
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1662–1663
- Shaka Samvat	1527–1528
- Kali Yuga	4706–4707
Holocene calendar	11606
Igbo calendar	606–607
Iranian calendar	984–985
Islamic calendar	1014–1015
Japanese calendar	Keichō 11 (慶長１１年)
Javanese calendar	1526–1527
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	3939
Minguo calendar	306 before ROC 民前306年
Nanakshahi calendar	138
Thai solar calendar	2148–2149
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1732 or 1351 or 579     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1733 or 1352 or 580

Births

• February 12 – John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (died 1676)
• March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet (died 1687)
• May 23 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682)
• May 25 – Saint Charles Garnier, Jesuit missionary (died 1649)
• June 6 – Pierre Corneille, French writer (died 1684)
• June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (died 1675)
• June 19 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (died 1649)
• July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter (died 1669)
• September 22 – Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (died 1645)
• November 12 – Jeanne Mance, French settler in Montreal (died 1673)
• Richard Busby, English clergyman (died 1695)
• Leonard Calvert, governor of Baltimore (died 1647)
• Edmund Castell, English orientalist (died 1685)
• William Davenant, English poet and playwright (died 1668)
• Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester (died 1680)
• Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian architect and painter (died 1680)
• Thomas Harrison, English puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died 1660)
• Thomas Herbert, English traveller and historian (died 1682)
• John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor (died 1685)
• Pierre du Ryer, French dramatist (died 1658)
• Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (died 1688)
• Tokugawa Tadanaga, Japanese nobleman (died 1633)
• Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet (died 1687)