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Categories
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1609
1609
Years:
1606
1607
1608
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1609
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1610
1611
1612
Decades
:
1570s
1580s
1590s
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1600s
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1610s
1620s
1630s
Centuries
:
16th century
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17th century
-
18th century
Contents
1 Events
2 Science
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
April 4
– King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all
moriscos
from Spain
April 9
–
Spain
recognizes
Dutch
independence
May 23
- Official ratification of the Second Charter of
Virginia
.
July 6
-
Bohemia
is granted freedom of religion.
August 25
-
Galileo Galilei
demonstrates his first
telescope
to Venetian lawmakers. He is the first to perform observational astronomy as he observes the moons of
Jupiter
August 28
-
Henry Hudson
is the first European to see
Delaware Bay
.
September 2
-
Henry Hudson
enters
New York Bay
aboard the
Halve Maen
.
September 11
–
Valencia
expulses all the
Moriscos
October 12
- "
Three Blind Mice
" published by
London
teenage songwriter
Thomas Ravenscroft
.
Samuel de Champlain
claims the
Lake Champlain
area of
Vermont
for
France
.
The first published
rounds
in English are published by
Thomas Ravenscroft
.
Claudio Monteverdi
publishes his first
opera
,
Orfeo
.
The
Douay Rheims bible
is published in
England
.
Bermuda
is first settled, by English shipwreck victims en route to
Virginia
.
The
Netherlands
and
Spain
agree to the Twelve Years' Truce in the
Eighty Years' War
Dutch East India Company
imports
tea
to Europe
Japanese
clan of
Shimizu
conquers
Okinawa
Cornelius Drebbel
invents
thermostat
Henry Hudson
explores
Delaware Bay
and
Hudson River
Warsaw
becomes the capital of
Poland
Science
Johannes Kepler
publishes his first two
laws of planetary motion
in
Astronomia Nova
Hugo Grotius
-
Mare liberum
Births
March 28
- King
Frederick III of Denmark
November 25
-
Henrietta Maria
, Princess of
France
and
Navarra
, later Queen Consort of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
.
Deaths
January 21
-
Joseph Justus Scaliger
,
protestant
scholar
February 17
-
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
(b.
1549
)
Barnabe Barnes
, English poet
Federigo Zuccaro
, Italian painter
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:
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