1600

Keichô 5 (慶長五年)

Timeline of 1600

• 1600/3/7 Dutch ship Liefde, the crew of which includes William Adams and Jan Joosten, crashes in Bungo province.
• 1600/3/29 (possibly 4/10) William Adams and Jan Joosten meet Tokugawa Ieyasu for the first time.
• 1600/9/15 Battle of Sekigahara
• 1600/11/9 Antonio da Morga destroys two Dutch ships off Corregidor (Manila).
• 1600/12 Sunpu castle burns down.

Other Events of 1600

• British East India Company is established.
• The monk Kyan Bangen first arrives in Ryûkyû.
• Maeda Matsu travels to Edo as a hostage.
• The Pope grants permission to all orders of Catholicism to proselytize in Japan.
• A Ryukyuan ship is shipwrecked in the territory of Date Masamune, in Mutsu province.

Births and Deaths of 1600

• 1600/9/15 Shima Sakon, Shimazu Toyohisa, and many others are killed in the battle of Sekigahara.
• 1600/9/15 Ôtani Yoshitsugu commits suicide.
• 1600/10/1 Ishida Mitsunari is executed along with Ankokuji Ekei and Konishi Yukinaga.
• Abe Masakatsu dies.
• Murakami Motoyoshi dies.
• Murakami Yoshisuke dies.
• Murakami Yoshitada dies.
• Zhu Shunsui is born (d. 1682).

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