WHAT HAPPENED IN 1602.
Look what happened the 1602.

The Dutch East India Company is established. (20. March 1602)

Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod. (15. May 1602)

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. (8. November 1602)

Sebastian Viscaino lands at and names San Diego, California. (12. November 1602)

A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the FĂȘte de l'Escalade.) (11. December 1602)

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