Rulers:
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603)
• Henri III, King of Navarre (1572-1610)
• Henri IV, King of France (1589-1610)
• James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625)
Births:
• Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678)
• Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663)
Literature:
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Hamlet (1599-1601)
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601)
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Troilus and Cressida (1600-02)
• Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Twelfth Night (1601)
Art:
• Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638): Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap (c.1601)
• Caravaggio (1571-1610): Cena in Emmaus (1601)
• Caravaggio (1571-1610): Conversione di San Paolo (Odescalchi)
• Caravaggio (1571-1610): Conversione di San Paolo (1600-01)
• Caravaggio (1571-1610): Crocifissione di San Pietro (1600-01)
• Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609): Assunzione della Vergine (1600-02)
• Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609): Domine, quo vadis? (1601-1602)
• El Greco (1541-1614): Cristo en la cruz (c.1600-10)
• El Greco (1541-1614): Retrato de Cardenal (c.1600-05)
• El Greco (1541-1614): San Francisco medita sobre la muerte (1600-10)
• El Greco (1541-1614): San Francisco y el hermano León meditando sobre la muerte (c.1600-05)
• El Greco (1541-1614): San Juan Bautista (c.1600-05)
• Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640): Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1601-02)