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* [[Abbas I of Safavid|Abbas I]] ends the [[Uzbekistan|Uzbek]] raids on his lands.
* [[Yaqob]] succeeds his father Sarsa Dengel, as Emperor of [[Ethiopia]] at the age of 7.
* [[Jacopo Peri]] writes ''[[Dafne]]'', now recognised as the first [[opera]].
* The first edition of [[Francis Bacon (philosopher)|Francis Bacon]]'s ''[[Essays (Francis Bacon)|Essays]]'' is published.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lisa Jardine|author2=Professor of Renaissance Studies Lisa Jardine|title=Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Og89AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA228|year=1974|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-20494-1|pages=228}}</ref>
* [[Andreas Libavius]] publishes ''Alchemia'', a pioneering [[chemistry]] textbook.<ref>{{cite web|title= From liquid to vapor and back: origins|work=Special Collections Department|publisher=University of Delaware Library|url=http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/vapor/origins.htm|access-date=March 12, 2007}}</ref>
* 12&nbsp;million [[peso]]s of silver cross the [[Pacific]]. Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] base of [[Manila]] in the [[Philippines]] to the [[Ming Dynasty]] of [[China]], it is known that the main port for the [[Mexico|Mexican]] silver trade—[[Acapulco]]—shipped out 150,000 to 345,000&nbsp;kg (4 to 9&nbsp;million [[tael]]s) of silver annually from this year to 1602.
* [[Tobias Hess]] corresponds with [[Simon Studion]] and agrees with him that the [[Papacy]] must fall in [[1604]].</onlyinclude>