What Happened In 1602 - Historical Events 1602

Historical Events for the Year 1602

20th March » The Dutch East India Company is established.
15th May » Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod.
8th November » The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
12th November » Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California.

14th February » Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
18th February » Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (d. 1680)
18th March » Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
29th March » John Lightfoot, English academic and scholar (d. 1675)
26th May » Philippe de Champaigne, Dutch-French painter (d. 1674)
14th July » Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French politician, 2nd List of Prime Ministers of France named Chief Minister of the French Monarch (d. 1661)
10th August » Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
31st August » Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (d. 1675)
12th October » William Chillingworth, English scholar and theologian (d. 1644)
20th November » Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (d. 1686)
22nd November » Elisabeth of France (1602–1644) called Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)

13th February » Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1507)
19th February » Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (b. 1558)
22nd March » Agostino Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1557)
22nd May » Renata of Lorraine, Duchess of Bavaria (b. 1544)
25th September » Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)
1st October » Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish organist and composer (b. 1541)
30th October » Jean-Jacques Boissard, French poet (b. 1528)
1st December » Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese daimyo (b. 1582)