Editing 1601 (section)

=== April–June ===
* [[April 3]] – At an assembly of nobles at [[Kolozsvár]] (now Cluj-Napoca in Romania), Sigismund Báthory is again proclaimed Prince of Transylvania.
* [[April 22]] – The first expedition of the [[East India Company]] sets sail from England for the [[Maluku Islands|Spice Islands]] with [[John Davis (explorer)|John Davis]] as pilot-major.<ref>{{cite web|title=First Voyage of the English East India Company, in 1601, under the Command of Captain James Lancaster|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/kerr/vol08chap10sect01.html|accessdate=2021-02-08}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – Dutch explorer [[Joris van Spilbergen]], leading three ships of the [[Compagnie van De Moucheron]], departs on his first expedition to Asia, departing from [[Veere]] with the ships ''Ram'', ''Schaap'', and ''Lam'' (Ram, Sheep and Lamb). After establishing trade in [[Sri Lanka]], Spilbergen and his crew return to the Dutch Republic in 1604.
* [[May 28]] – [[Sekigahara Campaign]]: Japanese warlord [[Date Masamune]] leads an unsuccessful attempt to take [[Fukushima Castle]]. 
* [[June 23]]
**[[Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)]]: The [[Battle of Kokenhausen]] is fought at [[Koknese]] in [[Livonia]] (now [[Latvia]]) after Swedish troops had invaded the Lithuanian territory). The [[Polish hussar]]s, commanded by [[Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł|Prince Krzysztof Radziwill]], overwhelm a numerically superior force of Swedish attackers led by General [[Carl Gyllenhielm]], and over 2,000 Swedish soldiers are killed. <ref>Claes-Göran Isacson, ''Vägen till stormakt - Vasaättens krig'' ("Road to Power: The war of the Vasa family") (Norstedts, 2006) </ref>
**[[Juan de Oñate]], the Spanish colonial administrator in what is now the U.S. state of [[New Mexico]], departs from [[Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico|San Gabriel de Nuevo Mexico]] with 130 Spanish soldiers and 12 priests on an expedition to explore the interior of the area.  <ref>Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint, ''The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years'' (University of New Mexico Press, 2003)  </ref>