* 1544 – Bogislaw XIII, Duke of Pomerania ( d. 1606 )

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

* 1668 – William Davenant, English poet ( b. 1606 )

* 1606 – The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

It was written in the Tarikh-i Firishta ( 1606 – 1607 ) that Nasir ud din Mahmud the ruler of the Delhi Sultanate presented the envoy of the Mongol ruler Hulegu Khan with a dazzling pyrotechnics display upon his arrival in Delhi in 1258 AD.

* 1603 – 1606: Joachim I / I / III ( also Regent of Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1606 – 1621: Johann Georg of Hohenzollern

The death of Ivan's childless son Feodor was followed by a period of civil wars and foreign intervention known as the " Time of Troubles " ( 1606 – 13 ).

* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.

* 1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. 1570 )

* 1606 – Ambrose Rokewood – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. c. 1578 )

* 1606 – Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators ( b. 1571 )

* 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer ( b. 1606 )

* 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

* 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier ( d. 1675 )

* 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter ( d. 1669 )

* Agnes of Brandenburg ( 31 August 1606 – 12 March 1607 ).

* Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane ( c. 1606 – 1638 )

Shakespeare may allude to the image when Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't " ( 1. 5. 74-5 ).. And the Porter's speech ( 1. 3. 1 – 21 ), in particular, may allude to the trial of the Jesuit Henry Garnet in spring, 1606 ; " equivocator " ( line 8 ) may refer to Garnet's defence of " equivocation ", and " farmer " ( 4 ) to one of Garnet's aliases.

* 1606 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, and writer ( d. 1682 )

In 1606, the flag of England ( St. George's Cross ), and the flag of Scotland ( St. Andrew's Cross ), were joined together to create the Union Flag.

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The Union Flag has been used in a variety of forms since the proclamation by Orders in Council 1606, when the Flag of Scotland and the Flag of England were first merged to symbolise the Union of the Crowns.

File: Union flag 1606 ( Kings Colors ). svg | The English version of the First Union Flag, 1606, used mostly in England and, from 1707, the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

File: Union Jack 1606 Scotland. svg | The Scottish version of the First Union Flag saw limited use in Scotland from 1606 to 1707, following the Union of the Crowns.

Scottish Union Flag depicted in the 1704 edition of The Present State of the Universe. The Saltire is one of the key components of the Union Flag which, since its creation in 1606, has appeared in various forms following the Flag of Scotland and Flag of England first being merged to mark the Union of the Crowns.

The proclamation by King James, made on the 12 April 1606, which led to the creation of the Union Flag states:

However, in objecting strongly to the form and pattern of Union Flag adopted by James ' heralds, whereby the cross of Saint George surmounted that of Saint Andrew, ( regarded in Scotland as a slight upon the Scottish nation ), a great number of shipmasters and ship-owners in Scotland took up the matter with John Erskine, 18th Earl of Mar, and encouraged him to send a letter of complaint, dated 7 August 1606, to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, stating:

File: Châté Lîzabé Couleu d ' la Grande Brétangne c ( reverse ). jpg | Union Flag used in the Kingdom of England from 1606 and, following the Acts of Union, the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain from 1707-1800.

After the dynastic union of England and Scotland in 1603 ( the so-called " Union of the Crowns "), a combined British flag was created in 1606, initially for maritime display, later restricted to the King's ships, by combining St George's Cross with the St Andrew's Cross ( the flag of Scotland ).

17th and 18th century colonial governors usually required privateers to fly a specific version of the British flag, the 1606 Union Jack with a white crest in the middle, also distinguishing them from naval vessels.

Proclamation of James I of England, King of Scots: Orders in Council ; Official creation of the Union Flag – 1606.

It was used by King James VI & I in the form of " South Britain " and " North Britain " for England and Scotland respectively, most famously in his Proclamation of 1606 establishing the first Union Flag, where Scotland and England are not otherwise named:

James finally proclaimed the new Union Flag on 12 April 1606, but it was greeted without a great deal of enthusiasm, especially by the Scots, who seeing a St. George's Cross superimposed upon a St. Andrew's Saltire sought to create their own ' Scotch ' design which saw the reverse superimposition take place.

Banquo is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

The play is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606.

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

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His letter of 9 July 1606 to congratulate James I on his accession to the throne was three years late and seemed to English eyes merely a preamble to what followed, and his reference to the Gunpowder Plot, made against the life of the monarch and all the members of Parliament the previous November, was unfortunate for the papal cause, for papal agents were considered by the English to have been involved ( the effigy of Pope Paul V is still burnt every year during the Lewes Bonfire

The latest it could have been written is 1606, because the Stationers ' Register notes a performance on 26 December 1606.

In their book Shakespeare Reshaped, 1606 – 1623, Gary Taylor and John Jowett argue that part of the text of Measure that survives today is not in its original form, but rather the product of a revision after Shakespeare's death by Thomas Middleton.

The terminology " salad days ", meaning a " time of youthful inexperience " ( on notion of " green "), is first recorded by Shakespeare in 1606, while the use of salad bar first appeared in American English in 1976.

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

The Wernersches House ( 1606 ) is a half-timbered house with wood carvings in its façade

The first known example is a book on ink-cakes printed in 1606, and colour technique reached its height in books on painting published in the seventeenth century.

This offers potential evidence of a second visit to Italy, possibly around 1606, influenced by the ambassador Henry Wotton: there is evidence that Jones owned a copy of Andrea Palladio's works with marginalia that refer to Wotton.

His most famous work, however, is Guzmán de Alfarache, which was translated into French in 1600, into Italian in 1606, into German in 1615, into English in 1623 by James Mabbe, and into Latin in 1623.

Davenant is believed to have been born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor of the Crown Tavern ( or Crown Inn ) and Mayor of Oxford.