Jacopo Corsi ( 17 July 1561 – 29 December 1602 ) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and patron of the arts.

* May 5 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician ( b. 1602 )

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG, KB, FRS ( 1602 – 5 May 1671 ) was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.

To form the core of what would become the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, he recruited his cousin-by-marriage Edward Maria Wingfield, as well as John Smith, his brother and a cousin, in addition to members of his 1602 expedition.

It was created in 1602 for Edward Bruce, later Master of the Rolls, with remainder to his heirs and assigns whatsoever.

* Edward Smith ( judge ) ( 1602 – 1682 ), Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas

* Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester 17 July 1602 – 3 March 1628 jointly with

* A Defence of the Catholycke Cause, By T. F., with an Apology of his innocence in a fayned conspiracy of Edward Squire ( St-Omer, 1602 ), on the case of Edward Squire.

In 1602 he started lecturing, in 1603 he was appointed professor of poetics, in 1605 professor of Greek, and at the death of Merula in 1607 he succeeded that illustrious scholar as the 4th librarian of Leiden University Library.

Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, KG ( 29 September 1602 – 13 October 1668 ) was an English military leader and a prominent supporter of constitutional monarchy.

* Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh or 6th baron ( 1594 – 1602 ).

* William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos ( c. 1552 – 1602 ), younger son of the 2nd Baron

It is a town which since its foundation in 1602, had been ravaged by calamitous forces such as fires, typhoons, floods and human vandalism during the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1899, the war of the Philippine Independence ( 1899 – 1902 ), Battle of Santa Cruz, the assault of the Tulisanes ( bandits ) during the Spanish times, and the beginning to the Filipino troops of the pre-war 4th and 42nd Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and recognized guerrillas from the Second Battle of Santa Cruz on January 26, 1945.

He was the only son of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos, who died on 18 November 1602, and Mary Hopton, who was daughter of Sir Owen Hopton.

* William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos 9 September 1595 – 18 November 1602

Sir Walter sold the property during his imprisonment for High Treason in 1602 to another famous adventurer, Richard Boyle, later 1st Earl of Cork.

On the occasion of the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales in 1610, Cavendish was made a Knight of the Bath, subsequently travelled with Sir Henry Wotton, then ambassador to the Duke of Savoy, and on his return married his first wife, Elizabeth Basset ( before 1602 – 17 April 1643 ), daughter of William Basset of Blore, Staffordshire by his wife Judith Austen, and widow of Henry Howard, third son of the 1st Earl of Suffolk.

He was the eldest son of the 1st Earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir William Spencer of Yarnton, Oxfordshire, England, was born in 1602, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ( 1618 – 22 ).

* Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland ( 1602 – 1668 ), son of Henry 9th

* James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell ( 1602 – 1653 )

* Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, 9th Baron le Despencer ( 1602 – 1666 )

On 2 May 1602 he was created Duke of Kintyre and Lorne, Marquess of Wigton, Earl of Carrick and Baron of Annandale, all in the Peerage of Scotland.

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by unknown artist ( 1602 ).

Subsequently he came to know Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, whom he supported in his quarrel with Sir Francis Vere in 1602.

This castle was burned in 1602 by Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone as the English forces closed in on the Gaelic lords towards the end of the Nine Years ' War ( Ireland ).

* William Alexander ( the younger ) ( c. 1602 – 1638 ), founder of the colony at Port Royal ; son of the 1st Earl of Stirling

It was created in 1626 for Sir Thomas Savage, 2nd Baronet, husband of Elizabeth Savage ( whom he married in 1602 ) and heir-apparent by special remainder to his father-in-law's titles of Baron Darcy of Chiche ( 1613 ), Viscount Colchester ( 1621 ) and Earl Rivers ( 1626 ).

Algernon ( 29 September 1602 – 13 October 1668 ), married firstly, Anne Cecil, by whom he had five daughters, including Lady Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Essex ; he married secondly, Lady Elizabeth Howard, by whom he had his heir, Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland.

In 1602, Raleigh's lands around Castlemartyr passed to Richard Boyle, the First Earl of Cork and ancestor to the Earls of Shannon.

* Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, de jure 9th and 7th Baron Bergavenny ( 1602 – 1666 )

* Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland ( 1602 – 1668 ), Lord High Admiral of England, later a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War

* Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk 17 July 1602 – 28 May 1626

" ( Back in 1602 it was Wingfield's 2nd cousin Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who funded Bartholomew Gosnold's voyage to " discover " and name Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard ).

Second Court, built from 1598 to 1602, has been described as ' the finest Tudor court in England '.

The earliest known performance took place at Middle Temple Hall, one of the Inns of Court, on Candlemas night, 2 February 1602.

The earliest known performance took place at Middle Temple Hall, one of the Inns of Court, on Candlemas night, 2 February 1602.

When Portuguese influence was in decline, the Dutch in 1602 made their mark when the viceroy of Fujian Province reported to the Court in Beijing that the ‘ Hong Mao ’ ( Red heads ), had attempted to establish a base.

In large part it was based on a study of his friend Viadana's Cento concerti ecclesiastici ( published in Venice in 1602 ), the first collection of sacred music to use the basso continuo.

While he did not invent the method — figured basses occur in published sources from at least as early as 1597 ( Williams and Ledbetter 2001 )— he was the first to use it in a widely-distributed collection of sacred music ( Cento concerti con il basso continuo ), which he published in Venice in 1602.

His earlier music is clearly in a Renaissance style, strictly a cappella with balanced polyphony between the voices, but after 1602 he wrote increasingly in an early Baroque style, with frequent concertato passages, and always with a basso continuo.

In 1602, Hassler returned to Nuremberg where he became the Kapellmeister, or director of town music.

Caccini wrote music for three operas — Euridice ( 1600 ), Il rapimento di Cefalo ( 1600, excerpts published in the first Nuove Musiche ), and Euridice ( 1602 ), though the first two were collaborations with others ( mainly Peri for the first Euridice ).

Anthony Holborne ( c. 1545 – 29 November 1602 ) was a composer of English consort music during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

In 1590 Monteverdi became a viol-player and cantor in the music chapel of Vincenzo ; in 1602 Vincenzo appointed him master of music on the death of Benedetto Pallavicino.