of "carnal cohabitation with a dog". The dog is hanged along with her. October 26 — Johannes Kepler, assistant to Tycho Brahe, is suddenly promoted to the position of Royal Mathematician of the Holy Roman Empire after Brahe's sudden death. October 27 — The 10th Parliament of Elizabeth I is opened by Queen Elizabeth of England. It serves until December 19. November 4 — Cyril I is selected as the new leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as Patriarch of Constantinople and Greek Patriarch of Alexandria, succeeding Meletius I Pegas, who died on September 12. November 18 — Ottoman defenders commanded by Tiryaki Hasan Pasha successfully resist the Austrian siege of Nagykanizsa. December 6 — The Battle of Castlehaven is fought off of the coast of southern Ireland as six Spanish Navy ships led by General Pedro de Zubiaur are intercepted by an English fleet of four warships led commanded by Sir Richard Levenson. Two of the Spanish ships are sunk, and the other four are run aground. December 19 — The 10th Parliament of Elizabeth I is adjourned. Another English Parliament will not be assembled until 1604 when summoned by James I. December 24 (Julian calendar, used by the English; January 3, 1602, according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish forces in the battle) – The Battle of Kinsale ends the siege of Kinsale, Ireland (begun in autumn 1601). December 27 — The Battle of Bantam is fought within what is now Indonesia off of the coast of the island of Java, as Walter Harmensz leads five Dutch Republic galleons in a successful attack against a Portuguese fleet led by André Furtado de Mendonça. Date unknown Dutch troops attack the Portuguese in Malacca. Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, being invited by the Ming Dynasty Emperor. A rainy summer in the Tsardom of Russia causes a bad harvest, leading to the Russian famine of 1601–03 which kills about two million people. Martin Möller is accused of Crypto-Calvinism. Possible first performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, perhaps in springtime. Births January–March January 8 – Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish prose writer (d. 1658) January 19 – Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter (d. 1663) February 4 – Shi Kefa, Chinese Ming Dynasty official (d. 1645) February 21 – Carolus Mulerius, Dutch Hispanist (d. 1638) February 22 – Pierre Chanut,