Editing 1604 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Za Dengel]], [[Emperor]] of [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopia]], is killed in battle with the forces of Za Sellase, who restores his cousin [[Yaqob]] to the throne.
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[Kepler's Supernova]] (SN 1604) is first observed from the northern parts of the [[Italian Peninsula]]. Beginning on October 17, [[Johannes Kepler]] begins a year's observation of it from [[Prague]]. There won't be another supernova visible to the "naked-eye" until [[1987]]. {{As of|2023}}, this is the last supernova to be observed in the [[Milky Way]].<ref>{{cite web|title=SN 1604, Kepler's Supernova|url=http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html|access-date=2011-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131163501/http://seds.org/~spider/spider/Vars/sn1604.html |archive-date=January 31, 2010<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566:Three-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |title=Three Great Eyes on Kepler's Supernova Remnant |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=2011-06-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101082248/http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/nasaNAS~4~4~12406~114566%3AThree-Great-Eyes-on-Kepler-s-Supern |archive-date=November 1, 2012 }}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; The first recorded performance of [[William Shakespeare]]'s tragedy, ''[[Othello]]'', takes place at the [[Palace of Whitehall]] in London.
* [[December 26]] &ndash; On the evening of [[Saint Stephen's Day]]), the first recorded performance of Shakespeare's "[[Shakespearean problem play|problem play]]" ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' takes place, before King [[James I of England]] in the banquet hall of the Palace of Whitehall.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shakespeare|first=William|chapter=Measure for Measure |display-authors=0|editor-last=Lever|editor-first=J. W.|series=[[The Arden Shakespeare]], second series|year=1967 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|orig-year=1965|isbn=978-1-9034-3644-8|doi=10.5040/9781408160237.00000030|page=xxxi|via=[[Drama Online Library]]|ref={{harvid|Lever|2015}}|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/measureformeasur00will}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; The [[1604 Quanzhou earthquake]], with an estimated 8.1 magnitude, shakes the [[Taiwan Strait]] leaving several dead.