* 1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( d. 1604 )

* 1537 – Francesco Barozzi, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and humanist ( d. 1604 )

* 1604 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese 3rd shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty ( d. 1651 )

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician ( b. 1604 )

* 1539 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian ( d. 1604 )

* 1546 – Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo ( d. 1604 )

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* 1604 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1530 )

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* Dorothy Catherine of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1538 – 1604 ) married in 1556 Henry V of Plauen, Burgrave of Meissen.

Conflicts included an attempt to conquer England – a cautious supporter of the Dutch – in the unsuccessful Spanish Armada, an early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), and war with France ( 1590 – 1598 ).

Eventually, Bembo's ideas prevailed, and the foundation of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence ( 1582 – 1583 ), the official legislative body of the Italian language led to publication of Agnolo Monosini's Latin tome Floris italicae linguae libri novem in 1604 followed by the first Italian dictionary in 1612.

* 1686 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist ( b. 1604 )

* 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

* 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet ( d. 1651 )

* James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Abercorn ( c. 1604 – c. 1670 ), created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane in the Peerage of Ireland in his father's lifetime.

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

* 1604 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian ( b. 1539 )

** Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish military commander ( d. 1604 )

In 1584 Gentili and Jean Hotman ( 1552 — 1636 ) were asked by the government to advise on the treatment of Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza ( about 1540 – 1604 ), who had been implicated in the so-called Throckmorton plot against Queen Elizabeth I. Hotman was the son of the French law professor François Hotman ( 1524 – 1590 ) and — like Gentili — a lawyer trained on the continent who had come to England for religious reasons.

Bernardino de Mendoza ( c. 1540 – August 3, 1604 ) was a Spanish military commander, a diplomat and a writer on military history and politics.

Bilingual Franco-Turkish translation of the 1604 Franco-Ottoman alliance | Franco-Ottoman Capitulations between Sultan Ahmed I and Henry IV of France, published by François Savary de Brèves in 1615.

Cartier was followed by nobleman Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts who was accompanied by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain in a 1604 expedition where they established the second permanent European settlement in North America, following Spain's settlement at St. Augustine.

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 12 April 155024 June 1604 ) was an English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era.

* Cogitations de Natura Rerum (' Thoughts on the Nature of Things ') ( 1604 )

The first European settlement in Maine was by the French in 1604 on Saint Croix Island, by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons.

Samuel de Champlain left the port of Honfleur in 1604 and founded Acadia.

The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship proposes that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford ( 1550 – 1604 ), wrote the plays and poems traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon.

One major evidential objection to the Oxfordian theory is Edward de Vere's 1604 death, after which a number of Shakespeare's plays are conventionally believed to have been written, according to 300 years of orthodox scholarship.

Anderson also observes that while Shakespeare refers to the latest scientific discoveries and events right through the end of the 16th century, " Shakespeare is mute about science after de Vere ’ s death in 1604 ".

Great Oxford: Essays on the Life and Work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, 1550 – 1604.

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* April 12 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England ( d. 1604 )

** Catherine de Bourbon, sister of Henry IV of France ( d. 1604 )

The Frenchman Samuel de Champlain visited the area as early as 1604 during his exploration of Canada, and members of his party reported to him the spectacular waterfalls, which he described in his journals.

In 1604, a North American fur trade monopoly was granted to Pierre Dugua Sieur de Monts.

Francisco de Quevedo's El buscón ( 1604 according to Francisco Rico ; the exact date is uncertain, yet it was certainly a very early work ) is considered the masterpiece of the subgenre by A. A. Parker, because of his baroque style and the study of the delinquent psychology.

The bay was also named Baie Française ( French Bay ) by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts which resulted in a failed settlement attempt on St. Croix Island.

* May 19 – Spain seizes English ships in Spanish ports, precipitating the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ).

Grotius's 1604 seminal work on international law, De Iure Praedae ( Of The Law of Prize and Booty ), was an advocate's brief defending Dutch raids on Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

The Siege of Ostend, 1601 to 1604, of which it was said that " the Spanish assailed the unassailable and the Dutch defended the indefensible ", cost a combined total of more than 80, 000 dead or wounded, making it the single bloodiest battle of the Eighty Years ' War.

Between the destruction by Charles, Duke of Guelders in 1504 and that brought by Louis XIV ’ s wars around 1700, Wavre would know several debilitating crises, either at the hand of foreign armies ( e. g., the Spanish in 1604 ) or because of epidemics ( 1624 – 1625, 1668 ) or major fires ( April 28, 1695 and July 17, 1714 ).

Although some counties were left without lieutenants during the 1590s, following the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the office continued to exist, and was retained by James I even after the end of the war against Spain in 1604.

Before the Low Countries could be completely reconquered, a war between England and Spain ( the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )) broke out, forcing Spanish troops to halt their advances and leaving them in control of the important trading cities of Bruges and Ghent, but without control of Antwerp, which was then arguably the most important port in the world.

Never having been at war with Spain, he devoted his efforts to bringing the long Anglo – Spanish War to an end, and in August 1604, thanks to skilled diplomacy on the part of Robert Cecil and Henry Howard, now Earl of Northampton, a peace treaty was signed between the two countries, which James celebrated by hosting a great banquet.

His inability to conclude the lengthy siege of Ostend ( 1601 – 1604 ), resulted in his withdrawal from the tactical command of the Spanish Army of Flanders.

However, his hopes of military support foundered as Philip III of Spain wanted to maintain the recent 1604 peace treaty with James I of England, the Spanish economy had gone bankrupt in 1596 and its European fleet had been destroyed some months earlier by the Dutch Republic at the Battle of Gibraltar.

Baybayin was noted by the Spanish priest Pedro Chirino in 1604 and Antonio de Morga in 1609 to be known by most, and was generally used for personal writings, poetry, etc.

In 1604 Titelouze became a French citizen ( at the time, Saint-Omer, where Titelouze was born, was part of the Spanish Netherlands ).

Ignored by Spanish explorers, who found the region too hot and poor to be claimed, the region was not colonized until 1604, when a French settlement was founded.

Also as the Anglo – Spanish War ( 1585 ) had ended in 1604, King Philip III of Spain wanted to preserve the recent peace with England under its new Stuart dynasty.

Given this lengthy support it was reasonable for Tyrconnell and Tyrone to try to solicit help from Philip III, but Spanish policy was to maintain its recent ( 1604 ) peace with England, and its European fleet had anyway been destroyed by the Dutch over four months earlier.

Suffolk accepted a gift from the Spanish ambassador negotiating the peace treaty of 1604, but his countess proved a more valuable informant and Catholic sympathizer.

In 1604 he was one of the commissioners who composed the treaty of peace with Spain, and from that date he received from the Spanish Court a pension of £ 1000.

Despite the Anglo-Spanish peace treaty of 1604, in 1607 O ' Neill, his brother-in-law the Earl of Tyrconnell, and several of their followers fled to Europe, expecting the Spanish to invade Ireland with an army.

During the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), the original Portuguese fortifications were redesigned by Italian military engineer Giovanni Vicenzo Casale and his assistants, since privateers, such as Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh, had attacked Spanish ships and possessions.

* James Wadsworth ( Spanish scholar and pursuivant ) ( 1604 – 1656?

Uncooperative indigenous peoples that had forced the Spanish to leave Valdivia in 1604 contributed to get the expedition to leave after some months of occupation.