1609
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February 4 – According to the
Japanese lunar calendar, last day of
Keichō 慶長 13 *
April 4 – King of Spain signs an edict 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 (
Letter of Majesty)
*
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
*
September 12 -
Henry Hudson discovers the
Hudson River.
*
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
Shimazu conquers
Okinawa*
Cornelius Drebbel invents
thermostat*
Henry Hudson explores
Delaware Bay and
Hudson River*
Warsaw becomes the capital of
Poland*
Johannes Kepler publishes his first two
laws of planetary motion in
Astronomia Nova*
Hugo Grotius -
Mare liberum*
February 10 -
John Suckling, English poet (died
1642)
*
February 18 -
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman (died
1674)
*
March 22 -
John II Casimir of Poland (died
1672)
*
March 28 - King
Frederick III of Denmark (died
1670)
*
March 29 -
Sarah Boyle, English noblewoman (died
1633)
*
June 29 -
Pierre Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder (died
1680)
*
August 19 -
Jean Rotrou, French poet and tragedian
*
November 25 -
Henrietta Maria of France, queen of
Charles I of England (died
1669)
*
November 26 -
Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (died
1659)
*
December 24 -
Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (died
1683)
*
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, French novelist and dramatist (died
1663)
*
John Clarke, English physician (died
1676)
*
Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died
1672)
*
Nathaniel Eaton, first schoolmaster of Harvard College (died
1674)
*
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (died
1641)
*
Paul Fleming, German poet (died
1640)
*
Jan Fyt, Belgian animal painter (died
1661)
*
Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (died
1676)
*
Alberich Mazak, Austrian composer (died
1661)
*
Hannibal Sehested, Danish statesman (died
1666)
*
John Underhill, English soldier and colonist (died
1672)
*
Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died
1676)
*
Lucas d'Achéry, learned French Benedictine (died
1685)
See also :Category:1609 births.*
January 21 -
Joseph Justus Scaliger, French protestant scholar (born
1540)
*
February 17 -
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born
1549)
*
March 9 -
William Warner, English poet
*
March 25 -
Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b.
1557)
*
April 4 -
Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (born
1526)
*
May 15 -
Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (born
1557)
*
July 15 -
Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born
1560)
*
August 22 -
Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (born
1525)
*
October 1 -
Giammateo Asola, Italian composer
*
December 4 -
Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (born
1560)
*
Al-Jilani, Persian physician
*
Mateo Alemán, Spanish novelist and man of letters (born
1547)
*
Yamada Arinobu, Japanese nobleman (born
1544)
*
Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian (born
1560)
*
James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran*
Barnabe Barnes, English poet (born
1568)
*
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Italian Baroque composer (born
1582)
*
Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, Scottish statesman (born
1553)
*
Federigo Zuccaro, Italian painter (born
1543)
See also :Category:1609 deaths.
