troops in the Battle of Sufiyan, and captures Tabriz. David Blow, December 6 – In England Thomas Bonham petitions to become a member of the College of Physicians in order for his practice to be legal, and is rejected. Dr. Bonham continues to practice, and is eventually imprisoned on November 13, 1606, leading to the landmark decision in Dr. Bonham's Case in 1610. December 11 – King Sigismund III of Poland marries his former sister-in-law, Constance, daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, after Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor refuses to permit the King to marry Anna of Tyrol. King Sigismund, a widow, had previously been married to Constance's older sister, Anne. December 21 – On behalf of Spain, Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós begins his expedition to the South Pacific Ocean with 160 men on three ships. Queiros departs from Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru with his flagship, San Pedro y San Pablo, and San Pedro and Los Tres Reyes. Date unknown Habitation at Port-Royal established by France under Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, the first European colonization of Nova Scotia in North America (at this time part of Acadia); the Gregorian calendar is adopted. Crew of the Olive become the first English visitors to Barbados. Refugee French Huguenot merchants begin to settle in Dublin and Waterford. The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the English Reformation. More than two centuries later the community will establish Downside Abbey back in England. The Irish College in Paris is co-founded by John Lee, an Irish priest, and John de l'Escalopier, President of the Parlement. Central Mexico's Amerindian population reaches one million. Births January–March January 16 – Shahryar, fifth and youngest son of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (d. 1628) January 17 – Anthony Irby, English politician (d. 1682) February 1 – Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese Sephardic rabbi (d. 1693) February 17 – Luca Ferrari, Italian painter (d. 1654) February 18 Juan de Almoguera, Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima (1673–1676) and Bishop of Arequipa (1659–1673) (d. 1676) Abraham Ecchellensis, Lebanese Maronite philosopher (d. 1664) February 20 – Sir John Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Lowther, English politician (d. 1675) March 1 – James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley,