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

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

* 1604 – Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish diplomat

* 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 )

Category: Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )

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

Category: Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 )

* 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 – 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 )

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.

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

For example, many 18th-and 19th-century scholars, including Samuel Johnson, Lewis Theobald, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, and James Halliwell-Phillipps, placed the composition of Henry VIII prior to 1604, as they believed Elizabeth's execution of Mary, Queen of Scots ( the then king James I's mother ) made any vigorous defence of the Tudors politically inappropriate in the England of James I. Oxfordians cite these sources to place the composition of the play within Oxford's lifetime.

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.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

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.

In 1933, Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum wrote that Malone subsequently " seems to have assigned it to 1604 ; later still, to 1613 ; and finally he settled on 1610 – 11.

" European explorers Martin Pring visited in 1603, Samuel de Champlain in 1604, George Weymouth in 1605 and Captain John Smith in 1614.

In early September 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain ran aground on a rock ledge believed to be just off Otter Cliffs, and when he came ashore to repair his boat he met local natives.

In 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his men spent a winter here.

The first Europeans were reportedly from the French expedition of Pierre Dugua de Monts ( Sieur de Monts ) and Samuel de Champlain, who founded the nearby St. Croix Island settlement in 1604.

This event led Gomarus to have Samuel Gruterus argue an opposite position to these theses on October 14, 1604, but not on the official schedule.

Acadia was first established as a settlement on Saint Croix Island, in the Saint Croix River between modern day Maine and New Brunswick, in 1604 by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and his navigator Samuel de Champlain.

Cartographer Samuel de Champlain was part of the Dugua expedition and settlement on the small river island in 1604.

In 1604, Du Gua organized an expedition and left France with 74 settlers including Royal cartographer Samuel de Champlain, the Baron de Poutrincourt, a priest Nicolas Aubry, Louis Hébert, Mathieu de Costa: a legendary multilingualist and the first registered black man to set foot in North America, and a Protestant member of the clergy.

Samuel de Champlain searched for Norumbega in 1604 and believed he had found Allefonsce's river in the form of the Penobscot, which he called " the great river of Norumbega ".

The town's most celebrated son is the French navigator Samuel de Champlain, who lived there when young, before being the co-founder of French settlement in Acadia ( 1604 – 1607 ) and Quebec ( 1608 – 1635 ).

The story of Philotas was dramatized in 1604 by the English poet and playwright Samuel Daniel.

On May 13, 1604, the French explorers Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain landed at Port Mouton and built a temporary camp at Bull Point.

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.

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.

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 )

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

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

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.