Othello and Desdemona, a painting by Fradelle from circa 1827

In the year 1604, Duke Carl becomes King Carl IX of Sweden (Mar 22), the Dutch begin contructing the city of Gothenburg in Sweden (Aug 21), William Shakespeare’s Othello is performed, probably for the first time, in London (Nov 1), construction of the Kajaani castle by order of King Carl IX begins in eastern Finland, France begins settling Acadia which becomes the first successful French North American colony, the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, the Table Alphabeticall, is published - and all these fine people were born:

1604-0104 Jakob Balde* German poet/Latinist - Ensisheim, Alsace (1668/64)

1604-0310 Johann Rudolf Glauber* German-Dutch chemist/alchemist/ discovered sodium sulfate - Karlstadt am Main (1670/66)

1604-0403 Bodo von Hodenberg* German administator/poet - Hudemühlen (1650/46)
1604-0417 Frans Luycx (B) Flemish painter - Antwerp (1668/64)
1604-0417 Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli* Italian painter - Offanengo, (1656/52)
1604-0428 Joris Jansen Rapelje* earliest settler in New Netherland - Netherlands (1662or63)

1604-0515 Ericus Achrelius* the first professor of medicine in Turku Academy, Finland - Österåker, Sweden (1670/65)

1604-0812 Tokugawa Iemitsu* 徳川 家光 the third shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty - Japan (1651/46)

1604-1018 Henrik von Rehbinder* Swedish soldier/baron of the Udriku estate/Governor of Finland - Livonia, Swedish Estonia (1680/75)

Updated 23.4.2021
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