1600 (MDC) was a century leap year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1600th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 600th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 16th century, and the first year of the 1600s. The Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar as of the start of the year. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 15th century16th century17th century
Decades: 1570s  1580s  1590s  – 1600s –  1610s  1620s  1630s
Years: 1597 1598 159916001601 1602 1603
1600 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1600
MDC
Ab urbe condita2353
Armenian calendar1049
ԹՎ ՌԽԹ
Assyrian calendar6350
Balinese saka calendar1521–1522
Bengali calendar1007
Berber calendar2550
English Regnal year42 Eliz. 1 – 43 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar2144
Burmese calendar962
Byzantine calendar7108–7109
Chinese calendar己亥(Earth Pig)
4296 or 4236
    — to —
庚子年 (Metal Rat)
4297 or 4237
Coptic calendar1316–1317
Discordian calendar2766
Ethiopian calendar1592–1593
Hebrew calendar5360–5361
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1656–1657
 - Shaka Samvat1521–1522
 - Kali Yuga4700–4701
Holocene calendar11600
Igbo calendar600–601
Iranian calendar978–979
Islamic calendar1008–1009
Japanese calendarKeichō 5
(慶長5年)
Javanese calendar1520–1521
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3933
Minguo calendar312 before ROC
民前312年
Nanakshahi calendar132
Thai solar calendar2142–2143
Tibetan calendar阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
1726 or 1345 or 573
    — to —
阳金鼠年
(male Iron-Rat)
1727 or 1346 or 574

This was the last century leap year until the year 2000.

Events

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Deaths

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  • September 16 – Gracia Hosokawa
  • December 13 – Mitsunari Ishida

Births

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