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Years: 1606 1607 1608 - 1609 - 1610 1611 1612 |
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Decades: 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s |
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1609 in literature 1609 in science |
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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
- Barnabe Barnes, English poet
- Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter
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