On 31 December 1600, the English monarchy granted the company a 15-year monopoly on trade to and from the East Indies and Africa.

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

The modern English form developed around 1600 from the French girafe.

In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I incorporated the English East India Company ( later the British East India Company ), granting it a monopoly of trade from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to the Strait of Magellan.

First attested in English c. 1600, the word " navy " came via Old French navie, " fleet of ships ", from the Latin navigium, " a vessel, a ship, bark, boat ", from navis, " ship " and from Sanskrit " न ा व " ( Nav ), " ship ".

* Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, from the Prosperous Voyage of M. Thomas Candish esquire into the South Sea, and so around about the circumference of the whole earth, begun in the yere 1586, and finished 1588, 1598 – 1600, Volume XI.

Zebra in English dates back to c. 1600, from Italian Zebra, perhaps from Portuguese, which in turn is said to be Congolese ( as stated in the Oxford English Dictionary ).

* November 19 – Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar ( b. 1600 )

* August 23 – John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English royalist politician ( b. 1600 )

** Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladeer ( d. 1600 )

* October 29 – Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader ( b. 1600 )

* November – Thomas Nashe, English poet ( d. 1600 )

* October 24 – William Prynne, English Puritan leader ( b. 1600 )

* October – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster ( b. 1600?

* April 26 – Lionel Lockyer, English alchemist and quack doctor ( b. 1600 )

From about 1600 the English, French and Dutch began to find colonies in the North American mainland and the smaller islands of the West Indies.

English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600

The English had been the first to adopt this approach, by bundling their resources into a monopoly enterprise, the English East India Company in 1600, thereby threatening their Dutch competitors with ruin.

Use of the: symbol to mark the discontinuity of a grammatical construction, or a pause of a length intermediate between that of a semicolon and that of a period, was introduced in English orthography around 1600.

He could also have known the Philip III story as, although De Rebus wasn't translated into French until 1600, and into English until 1607, there is evidence the Philip III story existed in a jest book ( now lost ) by Richard Edwardes, written in 1570, which Shakespeare certainly could have known.

Claude Lorrain, (), traditionally just Claude in English ( also Claude Gellée, his real name, or in French Claude Gellée, (), dit le Lorrain ) ( c. 1600 – 21 or 23 November 1682 ) was an artist of the Baroque era who was active in Italy, and is admired for his achievements in landscape painting.

The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete ( 1600 ), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects.

The complete dynamic theory of simple machines was worked out by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei in 1600 in Le Meccaniche (" On Mechanics ").

The complete dynamic theory of simple machines was worked out by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei in 1600 in Le Meccaniche (" On Mechanics ").

Italian scientist Giordano Bruno ( 1548 – 1600 ) and Jean Bodin ( 1530 – 1596 ), French scientist, attempted a rudimentary geographic arrangement of known human populations based on skin color.

Sister Maria Celeste ( 16 August 1600 < nowiki > </ nowiki >– 2 April 1634 ), born Virginia Gamba, was the daughter of the famous Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and Marina Gamba.

De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth ) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling.

The precursor to the modern land yacht was invented in the autumn of the year 1600 by the Flemish scientist Simon Stevin in Flanders as a commission for Prince Maurice of Orange.

Around 1600, the English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon surmised: " Heat itself, its essence and quiddity is motion and nothing else.

Since 1600, two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other, known as a couplet featured as a part of the longer sonnet form, most notably in William Shakespeare's sonnets.

As a physical basis, Kepler drew by analogy on William Gilbert's theory of the magnetic soul of the Earth from De Magnete ( 1600 ) and on his own work on optics.

In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ).

* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity.

In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.

An Italian, writing in 1600, suggested that she had been born in 1499, while Sir Thomas More's son-in-law, William Roper, indicated a much later date of 1512.

Although William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were actors, the majority do not seem to have been performers, and no major author who came on to the scene after 1600 is known to have supplemented his income by acting.

The astronomers Thomas Digges and Thomas Harriot made important contributions ; William Gilbert published his seminal study of magnetism, De Magnete, in 1600.

One of the publications that marked the beginning of modern science was William Gilbert's De Magnete ( 1600 ), a report of a series of meticulous experiments in magnetism.

* 1600 — William Gilbert, in his book de Magnete, wrote about systematic experiments in electricity and magnetism ; deduced that the Earth is a giant magnet.

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

Men such as William Harvey and his father Thomas Harvey Mayor in 1600 a. d. here, discoverer of the circulation of the blood ; and Samuel Plimsoll who invented the line named after him for ship safety.

He cited to this effect William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice published in 1600 ( Act IV, sc.

Among the best-known individuals to be executed by burning were Jacques de Molay ( 1314 ), Jan Hus ( 1415 ), St. Joan of Arc ( 30 May 1431 ), Savonarola ( 1498 ) Patrick Hamilton ( 1528 ), John Frith ( 1533 ), William Tyndale ( 1536 ), Michael Servetus ( 1553 ), Giordano Bruno ( 1600 ) and Avvakum ( 1682 ).

Around 1600, William Gilbert made a map of the Moon that names Mare Imbrium " Regio Magna Orientalis " ( the Large Eastern Region ).

William Kent was also inspired by the landscape paintings of the French artists Nicolas Poussin ( 1594 – 1665 ) and Claude Lorrain ( 1600 – 1682 ).

William Kempe ( right ) from Nine Days Wonder ( 1600 )

" The latter term was used in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( circa 1600 ) by William Shakespeare, " The honie-bags steale from the humble Bees.

The English astronomer William Gilbert's map of c. 1600 calls it ' Brittania ' after Britain.

Previously, William Gilbert had included it among the Insula Borealis (" Northern Island ") in his map of c. 1600, and Michael Van Langren had labelled it the Mare Astronomicum (" Sea of Astronomy ") in his 1645 map.

Previously, William Gilbert had included it among the Continens Meridionalis (" Southern Continent ") in his map of c. 1600, and Michael Van Langren had labelled it the Mare Borbonicum ( after the House of Bourbon ) in his 1645 map.