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Contents
1 Events
2 Science
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
January 7
-
Galileo Galilei
discovers the
Galilean moons
of Jupiter.
March 12
–
Swedish
troops under Jacob de la Gardie take
Moscow
May 13
-
14
–
Francois Ravaillac
assassinates
Henry IV of France
July 5
-
John Guy
sets sail from
Bristol
with 39 other colonists for
Newfoundland
.
Johannes Fabricius
is the first to observe sunspots telescopically.
Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
In
Jamestown
,
Virginia
, only 60 out of 500 settlers survive over winter and they may have to rely on cannibalism
Henry Hudson
discovers
Hudson Bay
Arabella Stuart
, pretender to the English throne, imprisoned for marrying
William Seymour
The
Orion Nebula
is discovered by
Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
.
Science
Jean Beguin -
Tyrocinium Chymicum
, first lecture book about
chemistry
Births
April 22
- Pietro Vitto Ottoboni later
Pope Alexander VIII
July 14
-
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
(d.
1670
)
December 12
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Saint Vasilije
December 15
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David Teniers the Younger
, artist
Deaths
May 14
- King
Henry IV of France
(b.
1553
)
May 27
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Ravaillac
, assassin who killed
Henry IV of France
October 14
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Amago Yoshihisa
, Japanese samurai and warlord
November 2
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Richard Bancroft
, Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1544
)
November 17
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Antoine de Bourbon
, duc de Vendôme
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