Unix Timestamp: -11455689600
Tuesday, December 26. 1606, 12:00:00 AM UTC

St. Stephen\\'s night) ndash First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear", before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.ref name=Shak.Encyc./

A storm buries the village of St Ismail near modern-day Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

St. Stephen's night) ndash First recorded performance of Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear", before King James I of England in the banqueting hall of Whitehall Palace.ref name=Shak.Encyc./

Gregor Richter has succeeded Martin Möller as the chief pastor of Görlitz.

The Jesuit Joannis Stribingius visits Latvia, and describes Latvian mythology.

The Evangelic Lyceum (Evanjelické lýceum), a Lutheran high school is founded in Bratislava.

The cryptographic text "Steganographia", written by Johannes Trithemius c.1499, is published in Frankfurt.