See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
March 24 -
King James VI of Scotland succeeded his cousin
Elizabeth I as
king
James I of England.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from
Mehmed III (1595-1603)
to
Ahmed I (1603-1617).
Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from the emperor of Japan and
establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the
Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.
Accademia dei Lincei founded.
Births:
Denis Gaultier - A French lutenist and composer.
Deaths:
March 24 -
Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland.
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