Establishment of the English East India Company.
Invasion and occupation of Savoy by the French; marriage of Henry IV with Marie de' Medici.
Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as an obstinate heretic.
1601.
Suppression of the rebellion in Ireland; complete tranquillity restored by Mountjoy, Elizabeth's general.
Commencement of the siege of Ostend by Archduke Albert of Austria.
Enactment of the earliest "poor law in England."
1602.
Beheading of the Due de Biron for conspiring against King Henry IV.
Failure of the Duke of Savoy in an attempt to seize Geneva.