• The earliest known English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall is published.
• Shakespeare's play Othello debuts in London.

These people were born in 1604:

• Tokugawa Iemitsu, third shogun of the Tokugawa bakufu.

These people died in 1604:

• Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, held by some to have been the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
• Ottoman Sultan Osman II.

1603 - 1604 - 1605

17th century

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